Entry № 4247 · Hawaiian origin

Hiiaka Hiiaka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hee-ee-AH-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hawaiian
Meaning
"Goddess of hula and healing"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "goddess of hula and healing".

Hiʻiaka is the Hawaiian goddess of hula, healing and the lush growth of the forest, sister of Pele.

Graceful and green, her name dances with life.

Goddess of hula and healing — a name from Hawaiian myth.

The name in its native script.

Hiiaka
Transliteration
Hiiaka
Pronunciation
/ hiʔiˈa.ka /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hiiaka stands.

Hiiaka 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.

Hiiakas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Hiiaka.

The number behind Hiiaka.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hiiaka reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.