What does Manō mean in Hawaiian?
Manō is a Hawaiian boy name that means shark. The name comes from manō (shark, an ʻaumakua guardian). It is pronounced mah-NOH, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Manō belongs with other Hawaiian names about ocean and strength.
The words inside Manō
manō means shark.
How to pronounce Manō
Say every vowel. The vowels in Manō are a as in “father”, o as in “go”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held slightly longer. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Manō a boy or girl name?
Manō is used mainly as a boy's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Manō is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 18 U.S. babies named Manō from 1970 to 2023, all boys, counted as Mano because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears in 3 of those 54 years. No year since 2010 has five or more babies of either sex given it. 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 Manō?
Manō is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.