What does Mana mean in Hawaiian?
Mana is a Hawaiian unisex name that means spiritual power, authority. The name comes from mana (supernatural power). It is pronounced MAH-nah, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Mana belongs with other Hawaiian names about strength.
The words inside Mana
mana means spiritual power, authority and appears in 3 Hawaiian names, among them Kaimana, Kamana.
How to pronounce Mana
Say every vowel. The vowels in Mana are a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Mana a boy or girl name?
Mana is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Mana is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 774 U.S. babies named Mana since 1917, but that spelling is also a Japanese name, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 16 babies born in the state were named Mana from 2012 to 2021, with a peak of 6 in 2013. 16 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Mana?
Mana is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.