Entry № 7146 · Hawaiian origin

Nalu Nalu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Hawaiian
Meaning
"A wave"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a wave".

Nalu is a name of Hawaiian origin, meaning a wave, the surf.

A wave — a Hawaiian name.

The name in its native script.

Nalu
Transliteration
Nalu
Pronunciation
/ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nalu stands.

Nalu 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.

Nalus before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Nalu.

The number behind Nalu.

3

The Communicator

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