What does the name Maua mean?

Maua is a Swahili name meaning "Flowers". Maua means flowers (one flower is ua), a bright, joyful name for a girl.

Where does the name Maua come from?

Maua is a Bantu-Swahili name. It comes from Swahili's own Bantu (African) roots.

Maua is usually given to girls.

Swahili name

means "Flowers"

Maua is a Swahili name meaning "Flowers". It comes from Swahili's own Bantu (African) roots.

Maua means flowers (one flower is ua), a bright, joyful name for a girl.

mah-OO-ah

The part in capitals is stressed. In Swahili, every vowel is its own sound, and the stress usually falls on the second-to-last syllable.

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What does the name Maua mean?: Maua is a Swahili name meaning "Flowers". Maua means flowers (one flower is ua), a bright, joyful name for a girl.
How do you pronounce Maua?: Say it mah-OO-ah. The part in capitals is stressed.
Where does the name Maua come from?: Maua is a Bantu-Swahili name. It comes from Swahili's own Bantu (African) roots.
Is Maua a girl's or a boy's name?: Maua is usually given to girls.

Bantu-Swahili: Swahili is a Bantu language, part of a large family of African languages. Bantu-Swahili names come from that original African core of the language.
Arabic-origin: Centuries of trade and contact along the East African coast brought many Arabic words and names into Swahili. They are now fully at home in Swahili-speaking families.
Borrowed (trade-route): Swahili also borrowed words from other languages its speakers met through trade across the Indian Ocean.