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Gender Masculine & Feminine
Usage Maori
Meaning & History
This name means "Venus as an evening star" and "star". This was the name of the Ngati Tama Chief of Kaingaroa, Meremere (d. 1860) who protected Moriori under him from other Maori chiefs during the Moriori genocide. This was the name of academic Meremere Penfold (1920-2014).