Entry № 7135 · Hawaiian origin

Naia Naia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NAH-ee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hawaiian
Meaning
"Dolphin"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "dolphin".

Naia means dolphin — playful, graceful, at home in the waves.

Dolphin — a Hawaiian name.

The name in its native script.

Naia
Transliteration
Naia
Pronunciation
/ ˈna.i.a /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Naia stands.

Naia 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.

Naias before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Naia.

The number behind Naia.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Naia reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.