What does Luka mean in Hawaiian?
Luka is a Hawaiian unisex name that means Hawaiian form of Luke or Ruth. The name comes from borrowed from Luke / Ruth. It is pronounced LOO-kah, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Luka belongs with other Hawaiian names about biblical.
Ruth in Hawaiian
Luka is the Hawaiian form of Ruth, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Ruth means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on Ruth in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.
How to pronounce Luka
Say every vowel. The vowels in Luka are u as “oo”, a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Luka a boy or girl name?
Luka is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Luka is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 21,877 U.S. babies named Luka since 1975, but that spelling is mostly the Slavic form of Luke, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 74 babies born in the state were named Luka from 2009 to 2021, with a peak of 13 in 2020. 63 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Luka?
Luka has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.