Boy name · Māori
Anaru
“Māori form of Andrew — strong, manly”
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About the name
Anaru is Māori — the te reo form of Andrew, Greek for "strong, manly" — one of the transliterated names that became fully Māori through generations of use in Aotearoa.
Absent from American charts, it offers the world's most classic boy-name meaning in a form almost no one outside New Zealand carries.
Three open syllables (AH-nah-roo) that soften Andrew's edges without losing the strength. It pairs well with short middles (Anaru James, Anaru Kai). On our vibe map it is Cultural Fusion — the familiar made new by fifteen thousand kilometers of travel.
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