Verotrekkie's Personal Name List

Ahtahkakoop

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Cree (Anglicized)

Other Scripts: ᐊᑖᐦᑲᑯᐦᑊ(Cree)

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.

Balam

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Mayan

Means "jaguar" in Mayan (Yucatec Maya báalam; K'iche' Maya balam).

Bidziil

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Navajo

Means "he is strong" in Navajo [1].

Citlali

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Nahuatl

Variant of Citlalli.

Ixchel

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Mayan Mythology, Mayan

Pronounced: eesh-CHEHL(Mayan)

Possibly means "rainbow lady", from Classic Maya ix "lady" and chel "rainbow". Ixchel was a Maya goddess associated with the earth, jaguars, medicine and childbirth. She was often depicted with a snake in her hair and crossbones embroidered on her skirt.

Kateri

Gender: Feminine

Usage: History

From the Mohawk pronunciation of Katherine. This was the name adopted by the 17th-century Mohawk saint Tekakwitha upon her baptism.

K'awiil

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Mayan Mythology

Variant of K'awil.

Kidlat

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Tagalog

Pronounced: keed-LAT

Means "lightning" in Tagalog.

K'uk'ulkan

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Mayan Mythology

Means "feathered serpent", from Classic Maya k'uk' "quetzal, quetzal feather" and kaan "serpent, snake". This was the name of a snake god in Maya mythology, roughly equivalent to the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. This is the Yucatec Maya form — the K'iche' name is Q'uq'umatz (which is only partially cognate).

Naiche

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Apache

Means "mischief maker" in Apache. This name was borne by a 19th-century Chiricahua Apache chief, the son of Cochise.

Nayeli

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Zapotec (Hispanicized), Spanish (Mexican)

Possibly from Zapotec nadxiie lii meaning "I love you" or nayele' meaning "open".

Nicte

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Mayan (Hispanicized)

From Yucatec Maya nikte' meaning "flower" or specifically "plumeria flower". It is derived from Classic Maya nich "flower" and te' "tree" [1].

Nina 2

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Quechua, Aymara

Means "fire" in Quechua and Aymara.

Nita 2

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Choctaw

Means "bear" in Choctaw.

Qillaq

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Greenlandic

Means "seal hide" in Greenlandic.

Quanah

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Comanche (Anglicized)

Pronounced: KWAHN-ə(English)

From Comanche kwana meaning "fragrant, smelly". Quanah Parker (1845-1911) was a 19th-century chief of the Kwahadi Comanche.

Quetzalli

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Nahuatl

Means "feather (from the quetzal bird)" or "precious thing" in Nahuatl [1].

Quispe

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Quechua (Hispanicized)

From Quechua qispi meaning "free" or q'ispi meaning "glass".

Rayen

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Mapuche, Spanish (Latin American)

Means "flower" in Mapuche.

Sacnicte

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Mayan (Hispanicized)

Means "white plumeria flower", from Yucatec Maya sak "white" and nikte' "plumeria flower".

Sayen

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Mapuche

Meaning uncertain, possibly a derivative of Mapuche ayün "love".

Tamatoa

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Tahitian

From Tahitian tama "child" and toa "warrior".

Tamya

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Quechua

Means "rain" in Quechua.

Tatanka

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Sioux (Anglicized)

From Lakota tȟatȟáŋka meaning "male bison". This was the first part of the name of the Lakota holy man and chief Tatanka Iyotake (1831-1890), usually translated into English as Sitting Bull.

Tecumseh

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Shawnee

Pronounced: tə-KUM-sə(English)

Means "panther passing across" in Shawnee. This name was borne by the Shawnee leader Tecumseh (1768-1813), who resisted American expansion along with his brother the spiritual leader Tenskwatawa.

Tekakwitha

Gender: Feminine

Usage: 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.

Tenskwatawa

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Shawnee

Means "open door" in Shawnee. This name was borne by the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa (1775-1836). With his brother Tecumseh he urged resistance against American expansion.

Tlalli

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Nahuatl

Means "earth, land, soil" in Nahuatl [1].

Ubirajara

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Tupi

Pronounced: oo-bee-ra-ZHA-ru(Portuguese)

Means "lord of the spear" in Tupi, from ybyra "wood, stick, spear" and îara "lord, master". This is the name of an 1874 novel by José de Alencar.

Zyanya

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Zapotec

Possibly means "forever, always" in Zapotec. It appears in the novel Aztec (1980) by the American author Gary Jennings.