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Keiki

Pronounced KAY-kee

“child”

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KAY·kee

2 syllables. The gold syllable takes the stress.

What does Keiki mean in Hawaiian?

Keiki is a Hawaiian unisex name that means child. The name comes from keiki (child). It is pronounced KAY-kee, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.

Keiki belongs with other Hawaiian names about love.

The words inside Keiki

keiki means child, offspring and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Keikilani.

How to pronounce Keiki

Say every vowel. The vowels in Keiki are e as in “bet”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.

Is Keiki a boy or girl name?

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

How often Keiki is given in the U.S.

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

How well recorded is Keiki?

Keiki 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 Keiki?

KAY-kee, in 2 syllables, with the stress on KAY.

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

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

What does Keiki mean in Hawaiian?

child. It comes from keiki (child).

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

Names like Keiki

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    “the one and only, the precious one”

    Pronounced kah-MEH-ahka + mea

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    Pronounced kah-MAH-kahka + maka

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    “choice, precious, esteemed”

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