What does Kuʻuipo mean in Hawaiian?
Kuʻuipo is a Hawaiian girl name that means my sweetheart. The name comes from kuʻu (my) + ipo (sweetheart). It is pronounced koo-oo-EE-poh, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kuʻuipo belongs with other Hawaiian names about love.
The words inside Kuʻuipo
ipo means sweetheart, lover and appears in 4 Hawaiian names, among them Kaipo, Ipo, Kaipolani.
How to pronounce Kuʻuipo
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kuʻuipo are u as “oo”, i as “ee”, o as in “go”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Kuʻuipo is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kuʻuipo a boy or girl name?
Kuʻuipo is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 172 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Kuʻuipo is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 172 U.S. babies named Kuʻuipo from 1972 to 2023, all girls, counted as Kuuipo because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears in 23 of those 52 years. No year since 2006 has five or more babies of either sex given it. In Hawaiʻi itself, 92 babies born in the state were named Kuʻuipo from 1978 to 2021, with a peak of 9 in 1979. No year after 2005 reached five births of one sex there.
How well recorded is Kuʻuipo?
Kuʻuipo has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.