What does Kaipo mean in Hawaiian?
Kaipo is a Hawaiian unisex name that means the sweetheart. The name comes from ka (the) + ipo (sweetheart). It is pronounced KYE-poh, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kaipo belongs with other Hawaiian names about love.
Ipo, the word of love songs
Kaipo is ka (the) and ipo, a sweetheart or lover. Ipo is the word of Hawaiian love songs, most often heard as kuʻu ipo, my sweetheart, and a child named Kaipo is the sweetheart of the family.
It is short and easy to say, KYE-poh, and it is used for both boys and girls. Add lani and it becomes Kaipolani, the heavenly sweetheart.
The words inside Kaipo
ipo means sweetheart, lover and appears in 4 Hawaiian names, among them Ipo, Kuʻuipo, Kaipolani.
How to pronounce Kaipo
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kaipo are a as in “father”, i as “ee”, o as in “go”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kaipo a boy or girl name?
Kaipo is listed here as unisex. Of the 470 U.S. babies given it, 0% were girls and 100% boys.
How often Kaipo is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 470 U.S. babies named Kaipo from 1972 to 2023, all boys. It appears in 51 of those 52 years. Its peak was 1994, with 16. The 2014 to 2023 total of 75 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 275 babies born in the state were named Kaipo from 1974 to 2021, with a peak of 14 in 1994. 16 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 Kaipo?
Kaipo has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.