Entry № 6637 · Chinese origin

Mazu Mazu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAH-zoo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Goddess of the sea"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "goddess of the sea".

Mazu is the Chinese goddess of the sea, protector of sailors and fishermen, beloved along the southern coasts.

Calm and watchful, her name has kept seafarers safe for centuries.

Goddess of the sea — a name from Chinese myth.

The name in its native script.

Mazu
Transliteration
Mazu
Pronunciation
/ ˈma.zu /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mazu stands.

Mazu 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.

Mazus before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Mazu.

The number behind Mazu.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mazu reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.