Entry № 5111 · Maori origin

Kahurangi Kahurangi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-hoo-RAHN-gee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Maori
Meaning
"Sky-clad, precious treasure"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Maori)

A name that means "sky-clad, precious treasure".

Used widely in New Zealand.

Sky-clad. The Maori precious greenstone.

The name in its native script.

Kahurangi
Transliteration
Kahurangi
Pronunciation
/ ˌkɑː.huːˈrɑːŋ.ɡi /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Kahurangi stands.

Kahurangi 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.

Kahurangis before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Kahurangi
Common in Maori fiction.

Names connected to Kahurangi.

The number behind Kahurangi.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kahurangi reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.