What does haku mean in Hawaiian?
Haku is a lord or master, the one in charge. As a verb it is to braid or to compose — to put a lei together, and to make a song. A haku mele is a composer, someone who braids words.
Say it HAH-koo. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site haku is part of 3 names: 1 begin with it, 1 end with it, and 1 carry it elsewhere. They split evenly between girls and boys, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning royalty.