What does Akaka mean in Hawaiian?
Akaka is a Hawaiian unisex name that means clear, luminous, transparent. The name comes from akaka (clear), also ʻAkaka Falls on Hawaiʻi Island. It is pronounced ah-KAH-kah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Akaka belongs with other Hawaiian names about light and water.
Where you'll hear it
ʻAkaka Falls drops 442 feet through rainforest on the Hamakua coast of Hawaiʻi Island and is the best-known thing carrying this name. The state park around it is one of the most visited waterfall sites in the islands.
The name is also carried by Daniel Akaka, who represented Hawaiʻi in the United States Senate from 1990 to 2013 and was the first senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry.
The words inside Akaka
akaka means clear, transparent.
How to pronounce Akaka
Say every vowel. The vowels in Akaka are a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Akaka a boy or girl name?
Akaka is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Akaka is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Akaka, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Akaka?
Akaka is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.