Aroha is the Maori word for "love," "compassion," or "empathy" — a concept in te ao Māori (the Māori worldview). The word carries connotations of warm, unconditional regard.
Aroha is widely used in New Zealand. In the U.S. it remains rare but distinctive.
Aroha 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aroha reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.