What does Haumea mean in Hawaiian?
Haumea is a Hawaiian girl name that means one dew. The name comes from hau (dew) + mea (one). It is pronounced how-MEH-ah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Haumea belongs with other Hawaiian names about water and mountain.
The words inside Haumea
hau means the hau tree and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Haunani.
mea means thing, person, one who and appears in 4 Hawaiian names, among them Kamea, Kameāloha, Waimea.
How to pronounce Haumea
Say every vowel. The vowels in Haumea are a as in “father”, u as “oo”, e as in “bet”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Haumea a boy or girl name?
Haumea is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Haumea is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 5 U.S. babies named Haumea from 2023 to 2023, all girls. It appears every year from 2023 on. Its peak came in 2023, with 5, and 5 were born from 2014 to 2023. In the Hawaiʻi records it never reaches five births of one sex in a year, the level at which a name is listed.
How well recorded is Haumea?
Haumea has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.