Entry № 7627 · Chinese origin

Nuwa Nuwa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NOO-wah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"The creator goddess"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "the creator goddess".

Nuwa is the great mother-creator goddess of Chinese myth, who fashioned humanity from clay and mended the broken sky.

Ancient and powerful, her name stands at the origin of the world.

The creator goddess — a name from Chinese myth.

The name in its native script.

Nuwa
Transliteration
Nuwa
Pronunciation
/ ˈnu.wa /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nuwa stands.

Nuwa 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.

Nuwas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Nuwa.

The number behind Nuwa.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nuwa reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.