Koa is a Hawaiian name that means ‘fearless’ or ‘warrior’. Koa is also the name of a species of tree that only exists on Hawaii. It is a kind of ironwood.
Koa is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
The name Koa isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Koa ranks 716. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Koa. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Koa.
Koa is a Hawaiian name that means ‘fearless’ or ‘warrior’. Koa is also the name of a species of tree that only exists on Hawaii. It is a kind of ironwood.
Ironwood is the term for... different kinds of woods that are so dense and heavy that they sink in water.
Koa is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Koa cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #311 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Koa, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Koa seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Koa was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.
With only three letters, the name Koa is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.9% of all boys' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.
If your name is Koa and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Koa, you can simply say:
Koala
Orange
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Koa
Koa
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
O
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
K
O
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Koa sounds like this:
