• Origin: Hawaiian
• Meaning: warrior; soldier; brave; name of a type of tree endemic to Hawaii
• Gender: masculine

The name comes directly from the Hawaiian word for “brave; courage; fearless” also a warrior or a soldier and it is the name of a type of tree acacia koa, which is endemic to Hawaii.

It currently ranks in as the 97th most popular male name in Australia, NSW (2022), the 349th most popular male name in the United States and the 489th most popular in England and Wales (2021).

Sources

• https://www.behindthename.com/name/koa
• https://wehewehe.org/gsdl2.85/cgi-bin/hdict?a=p&p=home&l=en&e=d-11000-00—off-0hdict–00-1—-0-10-0—0—0direct-10-ED–4–textpukuielbert,textmamaka—–0-1l–11-haw-Zz-1—Zz-1-home-koa–00-4-1-00-0–4—-0-0-11-00-0utfZz-8-00&q=