Entry № 6956 · Maori origin

Moana Moana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mo-AH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Maori
Meaning
"Ocean, deep sea"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Polynesian)

A name that means "ocean, deep sea".

Moana means the ocean, the deep sea, the wide expanse of water — a word shared across the Polynesian languages, from Maori to Hawaiian.

Ocean, deep sea — wide and serene.

The name in its native script.

Moana
Transliteration
Moana
Pronunciation
/ moʊˈɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Moana stands.

Moana 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.

Moanas before her.

Real people
Moana Maniapoto
New Zealand Maori singer.
born 1961
In fiction
Moana
Heroine of Disney's Moana.
2016 Disney film

Names connected to Moana.

The number behind Moana.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Moana reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.