What does Kaliko mean in Hawaiian?
Kaliko is a Hawaiian unisex name that means the bud, the leaf bud. The name comes from ka (the) + liko (leaf bud, child). It is pronounced kah-LEE-koh, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kaliko belongs with other Hawaiian names about nature and flower.
The words inside Kaliko
liko means leaf bud, new leaf and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Liko.
How to pronounce Kaliko
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kaliko are a as in “father”, i as “ee”, o as in “go”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kaliko a boy or girl name?
Kaliko is listed here as unisex. Of the 41 U.S. babies given it, 0% were girls and 100% boys.
How often Kaliko is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 41 U.S. babies named Kaliko from 2017 to 2023, all boys. It appears in 6 of those 7 years. Its peak came in 2021, with 11, and 41 were born from 2014 to 2023. 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 Kaliko?
Kaliko has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.