Asau as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Asau

What is the meaning of the name Asau ?

The baby name Asau is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced {'common_english': "AH-sow (rhymes with 'cow')", 'ipa': '/ɑˈsaʊ/', 'samoan_note': 'In Samoan vowels are often pronounced distinctly (a-sa-u: /a.sa.u/)'}.

Asau is Hausa, Samoan in Origin.

Asau (pronounced ah-SAH-oo) is a Polynesian/Samoan given name taken from the famed harbor town ʻAsau on the island of Savaiʻi, Samoa. In Samoan naming practice, prominent places and family lands are commemorated as personal names, so Asau functions chiefly as a toponymic honor-name, carrying maritime associations of harbors, reefs, and west-coast seas. It is used by both boys and girls within Samoan communities and appears in diaspora records in American Samoa, Hawaiʻi, New Zealand, and the mainland United States from the mid-20th century onward.

Common variants reflect Samoan orthography: ʻAsau and Asaʻu (with a glottal stop), sometimes simplified to Asau in English contexts. It is occasionally confused with Esau/Esaú, the unrelated Hebrew biblical name meaning “hairy.” Related forms by sound, not meaning, include Asao (a Japanese surname). As a place-derived name, Asau’s sense is symbolic rather than literal: it evokes shelter, navigation, and ancestral connection to the sea.

⚙ Asau barely registers. Across 12 countries, we found just 20 recorded uses of it.