What does Laʻakea mean in Hawaiian?
Laʻakea is a Hawaiian unisex name that means sacred light, clear light. The name comes from laʻa (sacred) + kea (white, clear). It is pronounced lah-ah-KEH-ah, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Laʻakea belongs with other Hawaiian names about light.
The words inside Laʻakea
laʻa means sacred, dedicated.
kea means white, clear and appears in 4 Hawaiian names, among them Kealani, Kolokea, Puakea.
How to pronounce Laʻakea
Say every vowel. The vowels in Laʻakea are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Laʻakea is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Laʻakea a boy or girl name?
Laʻakea is listed here as unisex. Of the 200 U.S. babies given it, 5% were girls and 95% boys.
How often Laʻakea is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 200 U.S. babies named Laʻakea from 1996 to 2023 (10 girls, 190 boys), counted as Laakea because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears in 26 of those 28 years. Its peak was 2007, with 14. The 2014 to 2023 total of 62 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 140 babies born in the state were named Laʻakea from 1996 to 2021, with a peak of 12 in 2007. 32 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Laʻakea?
Laʻakea has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.