Entry № 5111 · Maori origin

Kahurangi Kahurangi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-hoo-RAHN-gee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Maori
Meaning
"Sky-clad, precious treasure"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Maori)

A name that means "sky-clad, precious treasure".

Used widely in New Zealand.

Sky-clad. The Maori precious greenstone.

The name in its native script.

Kahurangi
Transliteration
Kahurangi
Pronunciation
/ ˌkɑː.huːˈrɑːŋ.ɡi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kahurangi stands.

Kahurangi 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.

Kahurangis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kahurangi
Common in Maori fiction.

Names connected to Kahurangi.

The number behind Kahurangi.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kahurangi reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.