Entry № 8808 · Other origin

Rongo Rongo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ROHN-goh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"God of peace"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Maori)

A name that means "god of peace".

Rongo is from the Maori Rongo — peace, news, sound Polynesian deity name. Rongo is one of the Maori unisex names — central to traditional Maori Indigenous Polynesian heritage. Maori unisex name reflecting pan-Polynesian Indigenous heritage.

God of peace (Maori-Polynesian).

The name in its native script.

Rongo
Transliteration
Rongo
Pronunciation
/ ˈroʊŋ.ɡoʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rongo stands.

Rongo 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.

Rongos before her.

Real people

In fiction
Rongo (Maori god)
Maori god of peace + agriculture + cultivated foods.

Names connected to Rongo.

The number behind Rongo.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rongo reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.