Hine as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Hine

What is the meaning of the name Hine ?

The baby name Hine is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced HEE-neh (IPA: /ˈhi.ne/).

Hine is in Origin.

Hine is a Māori feminine name meaning “girl” or “daughter,” a core lexical element in te reo Māori that also functions as an honorific for female figures. It appears widely in traditional narratives - Hine-tītama, Hine-nui-te-pō, and Hineahuone - and as a standalone given name across Aotearoa New Zealand from the 19th century to the present, with renewed visibility alongside the Māori language revitalization. The name conveys youthfulness, lineage, and protective ancestral ties.

Variants and related forms are chiefly compound names such as Hinerangi, Hinewai, and Hinepounamu; semantically related Māori terms include tamāhine (daughter) and wahine (woman). In the broader Polynesian sphere, Hina is a cognate/parallel feminine deity name. Separately, Hine also exists in English as a rare given name from the surname Hine, derived from Middle English hine “household servant, steward”; this branch is typically unisex and yields surnominal variants like Hines and Hinds.

⚙ Hine is a rare name. Our records hold just 85 recorded uses, spread over 24 countries.