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Liko

Pronounced LEE-koh

“leaf bud, newly opened leaf, child”

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LEE·koh

2 syllables. The gold syllable takes the stress.

What does Liko mean in Hawaiian?

Liko is a Hawaiian unisex name that means leaf bud, newly opened leaf, child. The name comes from liko (bud). It is pronounced LEE-koh, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.

Liko belongs with other Hawaiian names about nature and tree.

The words inside Liko

liko means leaf bud, new leaf and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Kaliko.

How to pronounce Liko

Say every vowel. The vowels in Liko are i as “ee”, o as in “go”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.

Is Liko a boy or girl name?

Liko is listed here as unisex. Of the 22 U.S. babies given it, 0% were girls and 100% boys.

How often Liko is given in the U.S.

Social Security records show 22 U.S. babies named Liko from 2004 to 2023, all boys. It appears in 4 of those 20 years. Its peak was 2004, with 7. The 2014 to 2023 total of 5 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. 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 Liko?

Liko 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 Liko?

LEE-koh, in 2 syllables, with the stress on LEE.

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

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

What does Liko mean in Hawaiian?

leaf bud, newly opened leaf, child. It comes from liko (bud).

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

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