Entry № 4383 · Other origin

Huia Huia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HOO-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Sacred extinct bird"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Maori)

A name that means "sacred extinct bird".

Huia is from the Maori huia — sacred New Zealand bird (Heteralocha acutirostris, extinct since 1907). Huia is one of the Maori feminine names Maori cultural symbol.

Sacred extinct bird (Maori).

The name in its native script.

Huia
Transliteration
Huia
Pronunciation
/ ˈhuː.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Huia stands.

Huia 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.

Huias before her.

Real people

In fiction
Huia (Maori sacred bird)
Maori most sacred bird + chiefly feathers.

Names connected to Huia.

The number behind Huia.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Huia reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.