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Ikaika

#3,471 in 2025Boys' name

Strong

Ikaika has been given to 1,075 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #3,471 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1983, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Ikaika, 2025

1 in 100,000

Ikaika over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ikaika: meaning, origin, and history

Strong

Hawaiian

What Ikaika means

Ikaika means “strong”, associated with ikaika.

Origin, language, and formation

Ikaika is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Ikaika is pronounced /iˈkai̯.ka/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,075 boys were recorded with the name Ikaika between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1983; its best national rank was #1,610 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,427 in 2020 to #3,471 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,547 in 2015 to #3,471 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ikaika?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,471
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ikaika sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ikaika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ikaikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ikaika was born before 2004 — so the typical Ikaika is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
24.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,075
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 24.1% of all recorded uses (259).

Is Ikaika rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,008
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,956
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+76
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
89.2%
Peak was 1983 (37)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,610
1983

Spellings of Ikaika

Ikaika is not the most common spelling — Kawika is, with 41.5% against Ikaika's 36.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ikaika is used

Across 1910–2025, Ikaika was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 1,010 boys, against 1 in 35,622 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

099 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 1,010
  2. 2Nevada1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ikaika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ikaika by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,471
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,956
Best rank ever
#1,610
1983
Peak year
1983
37 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,075
Count in 2025
33

Names similar to Ikaika

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ikaika

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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