PAHI Surname

Surname Definition: A Maori name. Also means knife from old Hawaiian wood.

Origins: French Polynesia and New Zealand.

Alternate spellings: PAHI, TEPAHI, and others.

Surnames sharing the Rootsweb Soundex Code: PEAY, PEW, PFAU, PHAY, POE, POWE, PYE.

Surnames sharing the GenesReunited NameX Code: pahi, paha, pahick, pahine, pauahi, pehy, pahika, pahisa, peh, piahi, pahoe.

Other Resources

• New Zealand Genealogy Forum
• Whakapapa Club
• Fletcher Index of Maori Names
• The Weapons of Lua - Pahi - Knife
• GenCircles
• Geneanet
• 5 PAHI family trees at GenesReunited $
• 2 PAHI family trees at Rootsweb
• FamilySearch
• PAHI appears 177 times in the titles of individual records, 3 times in information about its association with the government of New Zealand, 13 times in information associated with series of records - at Archives of New Zealand
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
• Linkpendium Pahi Surname: Genealogy and Family History George Bruce / Aeraki Te Pahi - First Fleet File