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Alikai

Gender
Boy
Say it
al-ee-KY
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#7,675 for boys

Alikai is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).

Where does Alikai come from?

Modern: blend of Ali and Kai, Hawaiian in style

Is Alikai a girl's or a boy's name?

Alikai is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Alikai in the US?

Rank in 2025
7,675th among boys
Babies in 2025
10 about 1 in 170,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Alikai, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,851st. Its busiest year was 2020, with 19 boys. It first appears in the records in 2009.

2025 had fewer boys named Alikai than any year since 2019.

Half of all the boys named Alikai in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

2009Busiest: 19 in 20202025
Alikai in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202510#7,675
202412#6,827
202312#6,892
202216#5,629
202117#5,333
202019#4,851
20196#10,797
201812#6,699
201712#6,681
20165#12,180
20150–
20140–
20130–
20120–
20110–
20100–
20096#10,989

Nicknames for Alikai

Names like Alikai

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Alikai

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Alikai: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alikai, updated 20 October 2026.