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Lopaka

#13,150 in 2025Boys' name

Shining glory, through Robert

Lopaka has been given to 139 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #13,150 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Lopaka, 2025

1 in 663,000

Lopaka 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lopaka: meaning, origin, and history

Shining glory, through Robert

English

What Lopaka means

Lopaka belongs to the name family reached through Lopaka → Robert. Its meaning is “shining glory”.

Origin, language, and formation

Lopaka is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include English.

Lopaka comes through English Robert.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Robert.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Lopaka is pronounced /loˈpa.ka/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 139 boys were recorded with the name Lopaka between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1997; its best national rank was #4,162 in 1997.

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 Lopaka?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,150
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lopaka 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lopaka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lopakas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lopaka was born before 1997 — so the typical Lopaka is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
139
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1990s — 33.1% of all recorded uses (46).

Is Lopaka 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
31.3%
Peak was 1997 (16)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,162
1997

Where Lopaka is used

Across 1910–2025, Lopaka was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 6,089 across all states with data.

1616 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 6,250

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. Lopaka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lopaka by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,150
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,162
1997
Peak year
1997
16 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
139
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Lopaka

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Sibling names for Lopaka

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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