Browse Names

This is a list of names in which the usage is Indigenous American; and the place is Canada; and the starting sequence is a or t.
gender
usage
place
starts with
Aanakwad m & f Ojibwe
Means "cloud" in Ojibwe.
Ahtahkakoop m Cree (Anglicized)
From Cree ᐊᑖᐦᑲᑯᐦᑊ (Atâhkakohp) meaning "star blanket", derived from ᐊᑖᕁ (atâhk) "star" and ᐊᑯᐦᑊ (akohp) "blanket". This was the name of an early 19th-century chief of a Plains Cree people.
Amaruq m Inuit
Means "wolf" in Inuktitut.
Anangikwe f Ojibwe
Means "star woman" in Ojibwe, derived from anang "star" and ikwe "woman".
Animikii m Ojibwe, New World Mythology
Means "thunder, thunderer" in Ojibwe. In Anishinaabe mythology this is the name of the thunderbird, an immense flying creature that makes thunder with its flapping wings.
Apanii f Siksika
Means "butterfly" in Siksika.
Arnaq f Greenlandic, Inuit
Means "woman" in Greenlandic and Inuktitut.
Tagwanibisan f Algonquin
Means "rainbow" in Algonquin.
Taqqiq m & f Inuit
Means "moon" in Inuktitut.
Tarqik m & f Inuit
Variant of Taqqiq.
Tekakwitha f Mohawk
Means "she who bumps into things" or "she who puts things in place" in Mohawk. Tekakwitha, also named Kateri, was a 17th-century Mohawk woman who has become the first Native American Catholic saint.
Tessouat m Algonquin
Meaning unknown. This was the name of several 17th-century Algonquin chiefs.
Tiriaq f & m Inuit
Means "ermine, weasel" in Inuktitut.
Tulugaq m & f Greenlandic, Inuit
Means "raven" in Greenlandic and Inuktitut.