What does Puakea mean in Hawaiian?
Puakea is a Hawaiian girl name that means white blossom. The name comes from pua (flower) + kea (white). It is pronounced poo-ah-KEH-ah, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Puakea belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower and light.
White blossom
Puakea is pua (flower) and kea (white, clear). Kea is the white of Mauna Kea, the white mountain, named for the snow on its summit, and in names it suggests purity and brightness.
The name can describe any white flower, and many families have a particular one in mind. Pua also means a child or descendant, so the name is a white blossom and a fair child at once.
The words inside Puakea
pua means flower, blossom and appears in 10 Hawaiian names, among them Kapua, Pua, Pualani, Puanani.
kea means white, clear and appears in 4 Hawaiian names, among them Kealani, Kolokea, Laʻakea.
How to pronounce Puakea
Say every vowel. The vowels in Puakea are u as “oo”, a as in “father”, e as in “bet”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Puakea a boy or girl name?
Puakea is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Puakea is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Puakea, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Puakea?
Puakea is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.