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Malaki

Pronounced mah-LAH-kee

“Hawaiian form of March”

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mah·LAH·kee

3 syllables. The gold syllable takes the stress.

What does Malaki mean in Hawaiian?

Malaki is a Hawaiian boy name that means Hawaiian form of March. It is pronounced mah-LAH-kee, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.

Malaki belongs with other Hawaiian names about biblical.

March in Hawaiian

Malaki is the Hawaiian form of March, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what March means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. See your name in Hawaiian for the full list of recorded forms.

How to pronounce Malaki

Say every vowel. The vowels in Malaki are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.

Is Malaki a boy or girl name?

Malaki is used mainly as a boy's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.

How often Malaki is given in the U.S.

Social Security records show 4,482 U.S. babies named Malaki since 1989, but that spelling is mostly a spelling of Malachi, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name.

How well recorded is Malaki?

Malaki has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce Malaki?

mah-LAH-kee, in 3 syllables, with the stress on LAH.

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

Malaki is used mainly as a boy name, though Hawaiian names carry no grammatical gender and it can be given to any child.

What does Malaki mean in Hawaiian?

Hawaiian form of March.

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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