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Hinemoa Hinemoa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hee-neh-MOH-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Maori legendary lover (Lake Rotorua + Tutanekai)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Maori)

A name that means "maori legendary lover (lake rotorua + tutanekai)".

Hinemoa is from the Maori Hine-moa — hine maiden/young woman + moa (possibly moe sleep / dream). Hinemoa is one of the Maori feminine names — central to traditional Te Arawa iwi (tribe) heritage.

Maori legendary maiden (Te Arawa).

The name in its native script.

Hinemoa
Transliteration
Hine-moa
Pronunciation
/ ˌhiː.nɛˈmoʊ.ə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Hinemoa stands.

Hinemoa 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.

Hinemoas before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Hinemoa (Te Arawa)
Maori legendary princess of Lake Rotorua.

Names connected to Hinemoa.

The number behind Hinemoa.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hinemoa reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.