Entry № 4111 · Hawaiian origin

Haumea Haumea — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ how-MEH-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hawaiian
Meaning
"Goddess of fertility and childbirth"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "goddess of fertility and childbirth".

Haumea is the Hawaiian goddess of fertility and childbirth, a great mother of gods and of the land.

Her name, now also a distant dwarf planet, means new life and abundance.

Goddess of fertility and childbirth — a name from Hawaiian myth.

The name in its native script.

Haumea
Transliteration
Haumea
Pronunciation
/ haʊˈme.a /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Haumea stands.

Haumea 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.

Haumeas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Haumea.

The number behind Haumea.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Haumea reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.