Pua
Pua is a girl name of Hawaiian origin, meaning Flower.
What Pua means
Flower.
Pua is short — 3 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Pua comes from
Hawaiian names are drawn from the natural world and from ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi's rich vocabulary for sea, sky, and light. Many are poetic descriptions rather than single words.
Pua is recorded as Hawaiian in origin. Browse other Hawaiian names.
How popular is Pua?
You will not find Pua in the top 100 girl names at the moment. Plenty of well-known names sit outside the charts; popularity measures how often a name is registered, not how good or how real it is.
The character of Pua
Two ideas meet in Pua: flowers and growing things and the natural world. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Pua
These share Pua's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Alani — Orange tree.
- Daisy — The day's-eye flower.
- Daphne — The laurel tree.
- Hana — Flower, blossom.
- Iris — Rainbow; messenger of the gods.
- Lily — The lily flower — purity and beauty.
- Petunia — The trumpet-shaped flower.
- Poppy — The bright red poppy flower.
- Primrose — First rose; first flower of spring.
- Rose — The rose flower.
- Sakura — Cherry blossom.
- Violet — The violet flower; the color purple.