jocatchi's Personal Name List

Apotropaic Names
224 Tiefling Names
433 Tree/Plant Words
231

Names meant to protect the bearer, or refer to their birth in some way.

Name	M/F	Remark
Ababuo	f
Abaskantos	m	"protected against enchantments, free from harm"
Abayomi	m & f
Abeke	f	"one begged to care for"
Abiba	f
Achaje	m	"stranger"
Adisoda	f
Aduke	f
Afogori	m & f	"s/he gets buried around" (Banjal/Bandial) [death prevention name]
Agyegyesεm	m & f	"trouble making"
Ahamefuna	m & f
Ahmicqui	f & m	"something that does not die" (Nahuatl)
Aimut	m	"may he not die" (Amharic)
Aina	f
Ajani	m & f
Akpoebi	f & m
Akpomofa	f & m
Alabrah	m
Alter	m	"old" (Yiddish)
Amadi 2	m	"seemed destined to die at birth" (Yoruba)
Ammenguyyah	m
Amr	m
Amran	m
Amul-yaakaar	m & f	"s/he has no hope" (Wolof) [death prevention name]
Angerlarneq	f	"she who has returned home" after dead family member (South Greenlandic)
Antobam	f
Asaaseasa	m & f	"the land is finished" - no more land for burials, stay here (Akan)
Asabi	f
Asefi	f	"enough girls" (Haitian Creole)
Aselom	m	"enough men" (Haitian Creole)
Astruc	m
Auma	f
Awiti	f	"thrown away" (Luo)
Awiti	f
Awuor	f
Azmaveth	m
Bafiske	f
Balijekwao	f
Bayenkhu	f
Beduna	m	"is it bad?" (uncertain source)
Bēl-bullissu	m
Beninye	f & m
Bobe	f
Bodisere	f
Bompaka	m & f
Botagoz	f	"[baby] camel eye" - evil eye? (Kazakh)
Burul	f
Cawil	m
Çetulo	f	"died coming" (Banjal/Bandial) [death prevention name]
Chaćko	m
Child-of-God	m & f	Given to child expected to die at/soon after birth (Puritan)
Chilufya	m & f
Chimika	f & m	herb used to carry pregnancy to term (Tumbuka)
Chiwa	f
Choćka	m
Confortata	f	“comforted” (Latin) augurative name, given after death of previous child
Consolat	m	"consoled, comforted" (Latin) often given to a child born after the death of another
Creature	f & m	infants who survived birth just long enough to be baptised (Medieval English)
Dambuzgho	f
Deulegard	m
Dikaya	m & f	"is going nowhere" (Manjak) [death prevention name]
Dinkyene	m & f	"eat salt" - symbolises being alive (Akan)
Diotallevi	m
Enebish	f & m	"not this one" (Mongolian)
Erşi	m & f
Eutychus	m
Fedude	m & f	"death has ended" - marks end of premature death in family (Ijaw)
Felagha	f & m	"death has not reached me" (Ijaw)
Fundin	m
Genendel	f
Genubath	m
Gnendel	f
God-help	m & f	prayer for help if mother and/or child’s life is in danger (Puritan)
Gorgonios	m
Grímr	m
Guondibo	m & f	"they inter you there" (Banjal/Bandial) [death prevention name]
Gurias	m
Guyyah	m	"graves" - short form [Ammenguyyah] (Bandial)
Gvozden	m
Hai	m
Hamunyari	f
Have-mercy	f & m	prayer for mercy if mother and/or child’s life is in danger (Puritan)
Hazviperi	m & f
Hok'ee	m
Iredia	m	"stay" (Esan)
Isazo	m & f
Izbylut	m
Jelda	f
Jilele	m
Joli	f
Joy-again	f	birth after previous loss (Puritan)
Joy-againe	m & f	birth after previous loss (Puritan)
Kambondoo	m
Kamenko	m
Katuma	m	"to send" - last-born of triplets, not to be sent on errands (Luba)
Kaya 1	m	"carrier of load" (Akan) [death prevention name]*
Kéehu	m & f	"the one who dies" or "the dead one" (Manjak) [death prevention name]
Ketugay	m & f	"die till you get tired of it" (Jola)
Khasar	m	"a fearsome dog" - refers to stone guard dog/lion OR "archer" (Mongolian)
Khenbish	f & m	"nobody" (Mongolian)
Khivchuk	f
Khulan	f	"onager, wild donkey" (Mongolian)
Khünbish	m & f	"not human" (Mongolian)
Kokumo	m & f	"he will not die anymore" (Yoruba) [Abiku name]
Kuchinei	m
Kudzoka	f
Kutuna		"favorite; intimate" OR "amulet [to ward off evil/evil eye]" (Basque)
Kwento	m
Lepădat	m
Lífgjarn	m
Mabayoje	m & f
Maidei	f
Majekodunmi	m & f
Masiye	m & f
Matla	f
Medekhgüi	f & m	"I don't know" (Mongolian)
Merkada	f
Merkado	m
Meshullam	m
Motlagomang	f & m
Muneyinazvo	f & m
Mutunga	m	"to return, replace, put back" - replacement for the departed (Kamba) see also Katunga, Mutungwa, Musyoka
Muunokhoi	m	"vicious dog" (Mongolian)
Nakusha	f
Nasqida	m
Nawoj	m
Nayden	m	"found" (Bulgarian)
Nduefuna	m & f
Nekhii	m & f	"sheepskin" (Mongolian)
Nekras
Nemo	m	"nobody" (Latin)
Nergüi	m & f	"no name" (Mongolian)
Netsai	f	"trouble, annoy, bother" (Shona)
Niftyuk	f
Nkhumbwizhya	m & f	“admire for a while” (Nsenga), given after death of older siblings
Nnyeyam	m & f
Nonhelema	f	"not a man" (Shawnee)
Nugai	m	"dog" (Mongolian)
Nyamayarwo	m & f
Nymandus	m	"nobody" - given to orphans as given or byname (Germanic) see also Nemo
Obulor	m
Ochan	m
Ogbodo	m & f
Oghul Qaimish	f	"next time a boy" (Mongolian)
Ogtbish	f & m	"not at all" (Mongolian)
Ojo	m	child born with umbilical cord around neck (Yoruba)
Ojwang	m
Ombana	m & f
Omotunde	m	"the child has returned" (Yoruba)
Ondiek	m	determined to survive; lit. "hyena" (Luo)
Onwuegbunam	m & f
Onwutalobi	m
Oprea	f	"to stop" (Romanian) hoping this is the last child born into a family
Oresanwo	m
Orshikh	m & f
Orvo	m
Otaiku	m	"a hard stone can not die" (Yoruba)
Owiti	m
Owo	m
Panji	m & f	“maybe” (Tumbuka) as in “maybe he will grow”
Pausilypos	m
Pheko	m
Phila	m & f
Piran	m
Pomare	m & f	"night cough" - changed name after death of child (Tahitian)
Preserved	m & f	child spared from certain death during childbirth (Puritan)
Prodan	m
Prodana	f	"sold" (Serbian)
Regai	m
Relictus	m
Rron	m
Rytgėv	m
Rytkheu	m
Safe-on-high	m & f	given to children expected to die (Puritan)
Safe-on-highe	m	'Often given to children expected to perish. References the safety of a child in Heaven versus earth'
Satilmiş	m
Saubar	m
Shaka	m	stomach cramp caused by an intestinal parasite
Sharmaarke	m	"see no evil" or "protect from evil" (Somali)
Sinh	m & f
Skyldfri	f	"innocent, guiltless" - foundlings/girls born out of wedlock (Danish)
Sorghaghtani	f	"pox girl" (Mongolian)
Staniša	m
Stemma	f	"to stop" (Judeo-Greek) hoping to stop having daughters
Taiwo	m & f	"taste the world, taste life" (Yoruba) for first of twins
Tambudzai	f	"make trouble, frustrate" (Shona)
Tangman	m
Tanyaradzwa	f
Tatadzeiko	f
Taymaskhan	m
Tekena	f & m
Tenabaabi	m & f
Terbish	m & f	"not that one" (Mongolian)
Tichaona	m	"we will see" (Shona)
Tin	m & f
Ti-sái	m	"hog manure" (Taiwanese) [given to ward off evil spirits]
Todini	m & f
Tokin'aina	m & f
Toktar	m	"let it stay" (Kazakh)
Tolegen	m	"paid” - after death of male family member (Kazakh)
Torevei	m & f
Towera	f	"beauty, beautiful" - given to a child born after death(s) of a preceding sibling (Tumbuka)
Trajko	m	"to last" (Macedonian)
Tsiafoy	m & f
Turar	m & f	"will live" - given to child not expected to live (Kazakh)
Tursun	m
Tursyn	m	"let him live" (Karakalpak)
Tursynbek	m	"let it live" + "chieftain, master" (Karakalpak)
Tygrynkeev	m
Úfeigr	m	"not fey, not doomed to die" (Old Norse)
Ultuar	f
Vakona	f	"unwanted"
Vinevyt	f	"deceased"
Vopiscus	m	unknown; pos. given to a child whose twin was stillborn (Latin)
Waibodei	m & f	"has returned again"
Yeggul-ngon	m & f	"s/he has not reached the afternoon" (Wolof) [death prevention name]
Yibanathi	m & f	"be with us"
Yue	f & m	supposedly "tragic accident" in Japanese, given to infants who die soon after birth [http://bewitchingnames.blogspot.com/2012/11/name-round-up-last-airbender-and-legend.html?m=1]
Yurena	f	"evil spirit" (Guanche)
Zavida	m	"to envy" - prevent spirits from envying (Serbian)
Zaviša	m	see Zavida
Zbywoj	m
Zeyde	m	"grandfather"
Zvidzai	m	"despise, look down upon" (shona)