What does Maikaʻi mean in Hawaiian?
Maikaʻi is a Hawaiian unisex name that means good, fine, well. The name comes from maikaʻi (good). It is pronounced my-KAH-ee, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Maikaʻi belongs with other Hawaiian names about wisdom and joy.
The words inside Maikaʻi
maikaʻi means good, fine, excellent and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Lokomaikaʻi.
How to pronounce Maikaʻi
Say every vowel. The vowels in Maikaʻi are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Maikaʻi is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Maikaʻi a boy or girl name?
Maikaʻi is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Maikaʻi is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Maikaʻi, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Maikaʻi?
Maikaʻi has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.