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Wairere Wairere — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ wai-REH-reh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Waterfall"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Maori)

A name that means "waterfall".

Wairere is from the Maori wai (water) + rere (flowing, leaping) — flowing water, waterfall. Wairere is one of the Maori feminine names — central to traditional Maori nature-naming heritage.

Waterfall.

The name in its native script.

Wairere
Transliteration
Wairere
Pronunciation
/ waɪˈrɛ.rɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wairere stands.

Wairere 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.

Waireres before her.

Real people

In fiction
Wairere (Falls)
Maori 153m waterfall Mount Te Aroha.

Names connected to Wairere.

The number behind Wairere.

7

The Seeker

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