What does Maka mean in Hawaiian?
Maka is a Hawaiian unisex name that means eye, beloved, the beginning. The name comes from maka (eye, face, favorite). It is pronounced MAH-kah, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Maka belongs with other Hawaiian names about love.
The words inside Maka
maka means eye, face and appears in 5 Hawaiian names, among them Kamaka, Makanui, Kaleikaumaka, Nāmaka.
How to pronounce Maka
Say every vowel. The vowels in Maka are a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Maka a boy or girl name?
Maka is listed here as unisex. Of the 59 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Maka is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 59 U.S. babies named Maka from 2001 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 8 of those 23 years. Its peak came in 2023, with 10, and 47 were born from 2014 to 2023. In the Hawaiʻi records it never reaches five births of one sex in a year, the level at which a name is listed. It is listed here as unisex, but every recorded U.S. birth has been a girl.
How well recorded is Maka?
Maka has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.