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Gender Masculine
Usage Maori
Meaning & History
This name in English is "calystegia sepium" a weedy vine or wildflower. New Zealand colonists mistranslated a person with this name "The Robuller." This is the name of Ngati Toa Chief Te Rauparaha (d. 1849) who took over new lands in central New Zealand.