Entry № 11509 · Other origin

Wenu Wenu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ WEH-noo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Sky / above"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Mapuche)

A name that means "sky / above".

Wenu is from the Mapuche (Mapudungun) Wenu — sky, above, heaven. Wenu is one of the Mapuche feminine + unisex names — central to traditional Mapuche Indigenous heritage of southern Chile + Argentina.

Sky / above (Mapuche-Mapudungun).

The name in its native script.

Wenu
Transliteration
Wenu
Pronunciation
/ ˈwɛ.nuː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wenu stands.

Wenu 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.

Wenus before her.

Real people

In fiction
Wenu Mapu
Mapuche sky/upper world cosmological concept.

Names connected to Wenu.

The number behind Wenu.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wenu reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.