What does Miki mean in Hawaiian?
Miki is a Hawaiian unisex name that means quick, nimble, active. The name comes from miki (energetic). It is pronounced MEE-kee, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Miki belongs with other Hawaiian names about strength.
The words inside Miki
miki means quick, energetic.
How to pronounce Miki
Say every vowel. The vowels in Miki are i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Miki a boy or girl name?
Miki is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Miki is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 1,871 U.S. babies named Miki since 1942, but that spelling is also a Japanese name, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 28 babies born in the state were named Miki from 1974 to 2021, with a peak of 7 in 1982. No year after 1993 reached five births of one sex there.
How well recorded is Miki?
Miki is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.