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Ipo

Pronounced EE-poh

“sweetheart, lover”

ipo, the Hawaiian wordMore unisex names

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EE·poh

2 syllables. The gold syllable takes the stress.

What does Ipo mean in Hawaiian?

Ipo is a Hawaiian unisex name that means sweetheart, lover. The name comes from ipo (sweetheart). It is pronounced EE-poh, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.

Ipo belongs with other Hawaiian names about love.

The words inside Ipo

ipo means sweetheart, lover and appears in 4 Hawaiian names, among them Kaipo, Kuʻuipo, Kaipolani.

How to pronounce Ipo

Say every vowel. The vowels in Ipo are i as “ee”, o as in “go”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.

Is Ipo a boy or girl name?

Ipo is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.

How often Ipo is given in the U.S.

No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Ipo, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.

How well recorded is Ipo?

Ipo is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce Ipo?

EE-poh, in 2 syllables, with the stress on EE.

Is Ipo a girl's or a boy's name?

Ipo is unisex. Hawaiian names carry no grammatical gender, and this one is given to both boys and girls.

What does Ipo mean in Hawaiian?

sweetheart, lover. It comes from ipo (sweetheart).

Sources the Pukui and Elbert Hawaiian Dictionary, Place Names of Hawaii, Nānā i ke Kumu, wehewehe.org, Wiktionary's Hawaiian given names and U.S. Social Security baby-name records. How this site is compiled · Send a correction

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    Pronounced ah-LOH-hah

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