What does Mānoa mean in Hawaiian?
Mānoa is a Hawaiian unisex name that means vast, deep, a valley in Honolulu. The name comes from mānoa (thick, vast). It is pronounced MAH-noh-ah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Mānoa belongs with other Hawaiian names about earth and rain.
The words inside Mānoa
mānoa means thick, vast, deep.
How to pronounce Mānoa
Say every vowel. The vowels in Mānoa 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 Mānoa a boy or girl name?
Mānoa is listed here as unisex. Of the 30 U.S. babies given it, 0% were girls and 100% boys.
How often Mānoa is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 30 U.S. babies named Mānoa from 2006 to 2023, all boys, counted as Manoa because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears in 5 of those 18 years. Its peak was 2016, with 8. The 2014 to 2023 total of 14 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. 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 Mānoa?
Mānoa is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.