Makai
Meaning of Makai
Makai, historically a directional term in the Hawaiian language denoting “toward the sea,” has been appropriated in contemporary onomastics as a masculine given name whose semantic core evokes Hawai‘i’s maritime orientation and, by extension, the broader human inclination to seek liminal spaces where land meets water; in the United States, sustained though measured growth in its usage—from the low-frequency appearance of five births in 1989 to an occurrence of 556 in 2024—suggests a gradual diffusion of Pacific linguistic heritage into the national naming repertoire, likely facilitated by parallel trends favoring nature-referential lexemes and concise, vowel-rich phonological patterns.
Pronunciation
Hawaiian
- Pronunced as mah-KAH-ee (/mɐˈkɐi/)
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Notable People Named Makai
| Makai Mason is an American-German professional basketball player who last played for Baxi Manresa and played college basketball for Yale and Baylor. |
