Given name
Aroha
“one who loves and is loved”
Aroha is used as a given name. One interpretation is “one who loves and is loved.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “one who loves and is loved.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2013. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aroha through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 17
- 0 boys · 17 girls
- Most popular year
- 2013
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #15,192 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,192 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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