What does Haku mean in Hawaiian?
Haku is a Hawaiian unisex name that means master, to compose or weave a lei. The name comes from haku (lord, to braid). It is pronounced HAH-koo, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Haku belongs with other Hawaiian names about royalty and music.
The words inside Haku
haku means lord, master.
How to pronounce Haku
Say every vowel. The vowels in Haku are a as in “father”, u as “oo”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Haku a boy or girl name?
Haku is listed here as unisex. Of the 39 U.S. babies given it, 0% were girls and 100% boys.
How often Haku is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 39 U.S. babies named Haku from 2013 to 2023, all boys. It appears in 6 of those 11 years. Its peak was 2016, with 8. The 2014 to 2023 total of 34 is more than in all earlier years combined. In the Hawaiʻi records it never reaches five births of one sex in a year, the level at which a name is listed.
How well recorded is Haku?
Haku is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.