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Wairua Wairua — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ wai-ROO-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Spirit / soul"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Maori)

A name that means "spirit / soul".

Wairua is from the Maori Wairua — spirit, soul. Wairua is one of the Maori feminine + unisex names — central to traditional Maori Indigenous Polynesian heritage of Aotearoa New Zealand. Maori feminine name.

Spirit / soul (Maori Indigenous Polynesian).

The name in its native script.

Wairua
Transliteration
Wairua
Pronunciation
/ waɪˈruː.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wairua stands.

Wairua 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.

Wairuas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Wairua
Maori spirit / soul.

Names connected to Wairua.

The number behind Wairua.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wairua reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.