What does ʻAikake mean in Hawaiian?
ʻAikake is a Hawaiian boy name that means Hawaiian form of Isaac. It is pronounced eye-KAH-keh, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
ʻAikake belongs with other Hawaiian names about biblical.
Isaac in Hawaiian
Isaac is the Hebrew Yitzhak, he laughs or he will laugh, the son of Abraham and Sarah in Genesis. English Protestants used it widely from the 1600s, and it came to Hawaiʻi with the missionaries' Bible names.
ʻAikake is the Hawaiian form. The ʻokina opens the name, the S became K and a closing e was added. Another recorded Hawaiian form is ʻIkaʻaka, which follows the Hebrew and Greek spelling more closely.
Isaac in Hawaiian
ʻAikake is the Hawaiian form of Isaac, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Isaac means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. See your name in Hawaiian for the full list of recorded forms.
How to pronounce ʻAikake
Say every vowel. The vowels in ʻAikake are a as in “father”, i as “ee”, e as in “bet”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in ʻAikake is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is ʻAikake a boy or girl name?
ʻAikake is used mainly as a boy's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often ʻAikake is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named ʻAikake, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is ʻAikake?
ʻAikake has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.