Entry № 468 · Samoan origin

Alofa Alofa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-LOH-fah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Samoan
Meaning
"Love"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "love".

Alofa means love and compassion — the warm heart of Samoan life. It carries tenderness and generosity.

Love — a Samoan name.

The name in its native script.

Alofa
Transliteration
Alofa
Pronunciation
/ aˈlo.fa /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Alofa stands.

Alofa 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.

Alofas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Alofa.

The number behind Alofa.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alofa reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.