What does Mākaha mean in Hawaiian?
Mākaha is a Hawaiian boy name that means fierce, savage, a valley on Oʻahu. The name comes from mākaha (fierce). It is pronounced MAH-kah-hah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Mākaha belongs with other Hawaiian names about strength and warrior.
The words inside Mākaha
mākaha means fierce.
Mākaha as a place name
Mākaha is also a town on Oʻahu, where the name is read as fierce, for the robbers who once held the valley. Place names and given names draw on the same words, so the meanings usually overlap but are not always identical. The page on what Mākaha means has the full story, and Hawaiian town and beach names covers the rest.
How to pronounce Mākaha
Say every vowel. The vowels in Mākaha are a as in “father”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held slightly longer. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Mākaha a boy or girl name?
Mākaha is used mainly as a boy's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Mākaha is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Mākaha, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Mākaha?
Mākaha is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.