Pika

[ˈpikə]

Meaning

Hawaiian form of Peter; also Slovene for "dot", the Slovene name for Pippi Longstocking

Background Story

Behind the Name records pika as a Hawaiian form of Peter, and separately as a Slovene word meaning "dot", used as the Slovene name for Pippi Longstocking, Pika Nogavička. The same source lists it among names used in Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Basque, Belarusian, Biblical, Biblical Greek, Biblical Latin, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan and Coptic. The word pika is also the English name of a small mountain-dwelling mammal, derived from the Tungusic piika.