What does Laniakea mean in Hawaiian?
Laniakea is a Hawaiian unisex name that means immeasurable heaven, wide sky. The name comes from lani (heaven) + ākea (wide). It is pronounced lah-nee-AH-keh-ah, with 5 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Also the name of the supercluster of galaxies that contains the Milky Way.
Laniakea belongs with other Hawaiian names about sky and heaven.
The words inside Laniakea
lani means sky, heaven and appears in 53 Hawaiian names, among them Kailani, Kalani, Leilani, Lani.
ākea means broad, wide, open.
How to pronounce Laniakea
Say every vowel. The vowels in Laniakea are a as in “father”, i as “ee”, e as in “bet”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Laniakea a boy or girl name?
Laniakea is listed here as unisex. Of the 41 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Laniakea is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 41 U.S. babies named Laniakea from 2016 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 5 of those 8 years. Its peak was 2018, with 12. 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 Laniakea?
Laniakea is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.