What does Alakaʻi mean in Hawaiian?
Alakaʻi is a Hawaiian unisex name that means leader, to guide. The name comes from alakaʻi (to lead). It is pronounced ah-lah-KAH-ee, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Alakaʻi belongs with other Hawaiian names about strength and wisdom.
The Alakaʻi
Alakaʻi means a leader, or to lead and guide. The name is also carried by the Alakaʻi — the high plateau behind Mount Waiʻaleʻale on Kauaʻi, one of the wettest places on earth and among the highest-elevation swamps anywhere. It is protected as the Alakaʻi Wilderness Preserve, and the boardwalk trail across it is one of the best-known walks on the island.
The bog holds plants and forest birds found nowhere else, several of them among the rarest in the world.
The words inside Alakaʻi
alakaʻi means to lead, a leader.
How to pronounce Alakaʻi
Say every vowel. The vowels in Alakaʻi are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Alakaʻi is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Alakaʻi a boy or girl name?
Alakaʻi is listed here as unisex. Of the 710 U.S. babies given it, 0% were girls and 100% boys.
How often Alakaʻi is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 710 U.S. babies named Alakaʻi from 1996 to 2023, all boys, counted as Alakai because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears in 23 of those 28 years. Its peak came in 2023, with 112, and 533 were born from 2014 to 2023. In Hawaiʻi itself, 73 babies born in the state were named Alakaʻi from 1996 to 2021, with a peak of 10 in 2019. 28 were born there from 2012 to 2021. It is listed here as unisex, but every recorded U.S. birth has been a boy.
How well recorded is Alakaʻi?
Alakaʻi is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.