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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
Grammatical form

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

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.