Entry № 8200 · Other origin

Poli Poli — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ POH-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Butterfly"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hopi)

A name that means "butterfly".

Poli is from the Hopi Poli — butterfly. Poli is one of the Hopi feminine names — central to traditional Hopi Indigenous Uto-Aztecan heritage. The Hopi butterfly is central to Hopi katsina (kachina) spiritual heritage Poli Kachina (butterfly maiden Hopi female puberty/coming-of-age dance Snake-Antelope ceremony). Hopi feminine name reflecting Pueblo Indigenous heritage.

Butterfly.

The name in its native script.

Poli
Transliteration
Poli
Pronunciation
/ ˈpoʊ.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Poli stands.

Poli 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.

Polis before her.

Real people
Polingaysi Qoyawayma
Hopi-Anglo educator + No Turning Back 1964 + The Sun Girl 1978.
1892 – 1990
In fiction
Poli
Hopi butterfly.

Names connected to Poli.

The number behind Poli.

7

The Seeker

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