Entry № 6419 · Samoan origin

Manu Manu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Samoan
Meaning
"A bird"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a bird".

Manu is a name of Samoan origin, meaning a bird.

A bird — a Samoan name.

The name in its native script.

Manu
Transliteration
Manu
Pronunciation
/ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Manu stands.

Manu 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.

Manus before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Manu.

The number behind Manu.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Manu reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.