Entry № 8169 · Hawaiian origin

Poliahu Poliahu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ poh-lee-AH-hoo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hawaiian
Meaning
"Goddess of snow"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "goddess of snow".

Poliahu is the Hawaiian goddess of snow, who dwells on the white summit of Mauna Kea.

Cool and serene, her name is rare among island goddesses — a name of ice and height.

Goddess of snow — a name from Hawaiian myth.

The name in its native script.

Poliahu
Transliteration
Poliahu
Pronunciation
/ po.liˈa.hu /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Poliahu stands.

Poliahu 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.

Poliahus before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Poliahu.

The number behind Poliahu.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Poliahu reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.