Ikaika
Masculine · “strong”
Ikaika is the Hawaiian word for strength, and it is used both as a word and as a name. It has the shape Hawaiian names often have — alternating vowels and consonants, every syllable open.
How old is the name Ikaika?
Ikaika first appears in US birth records in 1978 — 47 years ago. The typical Ikaika alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 1,100 people named Ikaika are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ikaika most popular?
Ikaika peaked in 1983, reaching #1594 nationally. Today it ranks #3450, 1,856 places below that high. See the whole 1983 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Ikaika
Hawaiian naming has always used ordinary words directly, and the practice was reinforced in the twentieth century as families returned to Hawaiian names after generations of English ones. Ikaika is among the most-used of them. It is also given as the Hawaiian rendering of the English name Isaac in some families, which is a second and quite separate line. It reaches American records from Hawaii and from Hawaiian families on the mainland.
Meaning
strong, strength
From Hawaiian ikaika, strong or powerful; the word is in ordinary use in the language and is also given directly as a name, in the practice that produced Kalani, Nalu and Malie.
Pronouncing Ikaika
ee-KY-kah
Four syllables in Hawaiian with every vowel sounded, ee-kah-EE-kah; mainland usage compresses it to three.
Nicknames for Ikaika
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1978
- Most boys named
- 198337 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1594reached in 1983
- Change vs 2024
- +43.5%33 in 2025, from 23
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Ikaika in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ikaika in Hawaiian — same name
- Kaha in Maori — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Hawaii, California, Nevada.
Ikaikas among us
people named Ikaika are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 51,760 born in 2025 was named Ikaika
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Romolo test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ikaika's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Romolo climbed just as high around 1916, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Romolo's path sketches the road Ikaika is walking now.
Ikaika sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Ikaika is headed
Ikaika should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Ikaika beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ikaika in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning in a living language, direct and easy to explain.
- Every vowel is sounded, so the spelling and the sound match exactly.
- Very well established in Hawaii, so it has a real community behind it.
- Mainland speakers compress the vowels and lose the Hawaiian shape.
- The repeated ka syllables make it easy to misspell for anyone unfamiliar.
- Outside Hawaii and the Hawaiian diaspora it needs explaining every time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ikaikas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Ikaika are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Ikaika in 2025?
- Ikaika ranks #3450 among US boy names in 2025, with 33 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ikaika?
- About 1 in every 51,760 US boys born in 2025 was named Ikaika — 33 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ikaika with classmates?
- Ikaika will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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