Entry № 7954 · Maori origin

Pania Pania — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PAH-nee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Maori
Meaning
"Reef princess of Maori legend"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Maori)

A name that means "reef princess of maori legend".

Pania is the Maori reef princess of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. "Pania of the Reef" is a famous bronze statue in Napier.

Pania is rare but distinctive.

The Maori reef princess. The Napier statue.

The name in its native script.

Pania
Transliteration
Pania
Pronunciation
/ ˈpɑː.ni.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pania stands.

Pania 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.

Panias before her.

Real people
Pania Newton
Maori activist.
born 1991
In fiction
Pania
Reef princess of Hawke's Bay.
Maori legend

Names connected to Pania.

The number behind Pania.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pania reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.