What does Alika mean in Hawaiian?
Alika is a Hawaiian boy name that means defender of the people, Hawaiian form of Alex. The name comes from borrowed from Alexander. It is pronounced ah-LEE-kah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Alika belongs with other Hawaiian names about strength.
Alex in Hawaiian
Alika is the Hawaiian form of Alex, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Alex means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on Alex in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.
How to pronounce Alika
Say every vowel. The vowels in Alika are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Alika a boy or girl name?
Alika is used mainly as a boy's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Alika is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 1,198 U.S. babies named Alika since 1971, but that spelling is also a Slavic short name, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 421 babies born in the state were named Alika from 1971 to 2021, with a peak of 15 in 1998. 50 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Alika?
Alika has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.