ThatOneAuthorGirl's Personal Name List
Amiria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Maori
Anahera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Maori
Means "angel" in Maori.
Emere
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Maori
Pronounced: eh-MEH-reh
Inia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Rare), Danish (Rare)
Iolana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Means "to soar" in Hawaiian.
Kiri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Maori
Personal remark: SI maybe
Means "skin of a tree or fruit" in Maori. This name has been brought to public attention by New Zealand opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa (1944-).
Laini
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Samoan (Rare)
As an English name, it is a variant of
Lainie.
Ma'ata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian, Maori
Pronounced: mah-ah-tah(Hawaiian)
Mere
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Maori, Fijian
Maori and Fijian form of
Mary.
Mereana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Maori
Miriama
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Maori, Fijian (Rare)
Maori and Fijian form of
Mary.
Pirihira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Maori
Raiha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Maori
Pronounced: Rye Har
Ripeka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Maori
Pronounced: Ri peck car
Maori form of
Rebecca. It coincides with a Maori verb meaning "to crucify".
Riria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Maori
Pronounced: Ree-Ree-ah
Roimata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Maori
Means "teardrop" in Maori.
Tiaho
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Maori
Pronounced: Tea-a-hor
Means "shining" or "shine" in Maori.
Aroha
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Maori
Means "love" in Maori.
Koia
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Maori, Papuan
Pronounced: koi-YA(Maori)
Manaia
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Maori
From the name of a stylized design common in Maori carvings. It represents a mythological creature with the head of a bird and the body of a human.
Moana
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Maori, Hawaiian, Tahitian, Samoan, Tongan
Pronounced: mo-A-na(Hawaiian)
Means "ocean, wide expanse of water, deep sea" in Maori, Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages.
Ahanu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Algonquin
Means "he laughs" in Algonquin.
Anaru
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori
Anewa
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori
Means "to fall" in Maori.
Atea
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polynesian Mythology
Atea is a deity in several Polynesian cultures.
Haimona
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori
Hemi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori
Itu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori
Pronounced: i-too, ie-too
Personal remark: SI
Matiu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Picard, Gascon
Mikaere
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori
Miko
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Pronounced: MEE-KO
Personal remark: Prism
Japanese for "beautiful child" derived from ü (mi) "beautiful" and Žq (ko)"child". It can also mean "shrine maiden", or "annoying".
Paerau
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori
Paora
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori
Patariki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori
Petera
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori
Rangi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori, Polynesian Mythology
Means
"sky" in Maori. In Maori and other Polynesian
mythology Rangi or Ranginui was a god of the sky, husband of the earth goddess
Papa. They were locked in a crushing embrace but were eventually separated by their children, the other gods.
Rawiri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori
Pronounced: Ra-WEER-ee
Saia
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Tongan, Maori (?)
Tama
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori
Means "son, boy" in Maori.
Tāne
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori, Polynesian Mythology
Means
"man" in Maori. In Maori and other Polynesian
mythology Tāne was the god of forests and light. He was the son of the sky god
Rangi and the earth goddess
Papa, who were locked in an embrace and finally separated by their son. He created the tui bird and, by some accounts, man.
Tariu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori
Tipene
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori
Waata
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori
Wiremu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori
Ariki
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Maori
Kahurangi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Maori
From the name of a type of green gemstone found in New Zealand, meaning "sky blue" in Maori.
Manu
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Maori, Hawaiian (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: MAH-noo(Hawaiian)
Hawaiian unisex name meaning "bird", from the word manu. Popular for singers.
(Often accompanied by other words such as Manu Mele meaning Songbird or Manu Aloha meaning Lovebird)
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Manu means "bird" in Maori.
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