Entry № 5698 · Hawaiian origin

Laka Laka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LAH-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hawaiian
Meaning
"The hula goddess"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "the hula goddess".

Laka is the goddess of hula and of the forest — gentle, attractive, inspiring. The name carries art, growth and grace.

The hula goddess — a Hawaiian name.

The name in its native script.

Laka
Transliteration
Laka
Pronunciation
/ ˈla.ka /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Laka stands.

Laka does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lakas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Laka.

The number behind Laka.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Laka reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.