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The names listed here are or were used by the various indigenous peoples who inhabited North and South America.
AHTAHKAKOOP m Native American
Means "star blanket" in Cree... [more]
ANTIMAN m Native American
Means "condor of the sun" in Mapuche.
ANTINANCO m Native American
Means "eagle of the sun" in Mapuche.
APUTSIAQ m Native American
Means "snowflake" in Greenlandic.
AQISSIAQ m Native American
From the Greenlandic word for a type of bird.
AUCAMAN m Native American
Means "wild condor" in Mapuche.
CATAHECASSA m Native American
Means "black hoof" in Shawnee... [more]
CITLALI f & m Native American
Means "star" in Nahuatl.
COWESSESS m Native American
Means "little child" in Ojibwa... [more]
CUAUHTÉMOC m Native American
Means "falling eagle" in Nahuatl... [more]
GOYATHLAY m Native American
Means "one who yawns" in Apache... [more]
HIAWATHA m History, Native American
From the Iroquoian name Haio-went-ha meaning "he who combs"... [more]
HOKOLESQUA m Native American
Means "cornstalk" in Shawnee... [more]
ISI m & f Native American
Means "deer" in Choctaw.
KANEONUSKATEW m Native American
Means "one that walks on four claws" in Cree... [more]
KAWACATOOSE m Native American
Means "poor man" or "lean man" in Cree... [more]
KISECAWCHUCK m Native American
Means "daystar" in Cree. This was the name of a 19th-century Cree chief.
LALAWETHIKA m Native American
Means "he makes noise" in Shawnee... [more]
MAQUINNA m Native American
Meaning unknown, of Nuu-chah-nulth (also known as Nootka) origin... [more]
MUSCOWEQUAN m Native American
Means "hard quill" in Cree. This was the name of a 19th-century Cree chief.
NAHUEL m Native American
Means "jaguar" in Mapuche.
NANOOK m Native American
Variant of NANUQ... [more]
NANUK m Native American
Variant of NANUQ
NANUQ m Native American
Means "polar bear" in Inuktitut.
NUKA m & f Native American
Means "younger sibling" in Greenlandic.
QILLAQ m Native American
Means "seal hide" in Greenlandic.
QUANAH m Native American
Means "fragrant" in the Comanche language... [more]
QUIDEL m Native American
Means "burning torch" in Mapuche.
SHIKOBA m & f Native American
Means "feather" in Choctaw.
TECUMSEH m Native American
Means "panther passing across" in Shawnee... [more]
TENSKWATAWA m Native American
Means "open door" in Shawnee... [more]
TIRIAQ m Native American
Means "ermine" in Inuktitut.
UJARAK m Native American
Means "rock" in Inuktitut.
WAPASHA m Native American
Means "red leaf" in the Dakota language... [more]
WAYNA m Native American
Means "young" in Quechua.
WAYRA m Native American
Means "wind" in Quechua.
WICKANINNISH m Native American
Possibly means "having no one in front of him in the canoe" in the Nuu-chah-nulth (or Nootka) language... [more]
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