This is a list of submitted names in which the gender is feminine; and the usage is Indigenous American; and the place is Greenland.
Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.
Mineĸ f & m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "little bit" (originally a diminutive ending).
Miteraĸ f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "chick of a sea duck, Common Eider". Combination of
Miteĸ and
-raq "young animal".
Myeerah f & m Indigenous AmericanMeans "walk in the water". Name borne by a Wyandot woman who played a prominent diplomatic role between the Wyandot and colonial settlers.
Naajaraq f GreenlandicMeans "gull hatchling" in Greenlandic, deriving from
naaja meaning "gull; seagull" and
raq meaning "cub; hatchling; baby animal".
Nahanni f & m Indigenous AmericanFrom
naha, meaning "river of the land of the Naha people" in Na-Dene (Athabaskan) languages, spoken by indigenous cultures in British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon Territory... [
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Najaaraq f GreenlandicMeans "little Naja", derived from the popular Greenlandic name
Naja combined with the diminutive suffix
araq.
Najâja f GreenlandicGreenlandic name with the combination of
Naja and affix
-aaja is a Greenlandic affix used for and by children.
Najánguaĸ f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "a boy's sweet little sister". Combination of
Naja and suffix
-nnguaq "sweet, dear".
Najannguaq f GreenlandicCombination of
Naja, meaning "little sister (to a boy)" and
nnguaq, a suffix meaning "sweet" or "dear."
Nampeyo f Indigenous AmericanDerived from the Tewa word
Num-pa-yu meaning "snake that does not bite". This was borne by the Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo of Hano (1859-1942), the daughter of a Tewa woman and a Hopi man.
Nandua f Indigenous American, HistoryThe name of a 17th-century Native American woman of the Accawmacke tribe, daughter of Chief Debedeavon, who became an ally to the English colonists.
Napârtoĸ m & f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "standing upright" or "Greenland mountain ash".
Nasaussaĸ f & m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "hood of a woman's furjacket" or "the bladder on the head of a hooded seal".
Natuk f GreenlandicThis is believed to have originated as a nursery form of the Greenlandic word
inequnartoq "sweet, cute", shortened and simplified to
natuk through the common custom of babbling or cooing with a baby... [
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Naujánguaĸ f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "Ross's Gull" with the combination of combination of
Nauja and -nnguaq meaning "sweet, dear".
Navarana f Greenlandic, Danish (Rare)Greenlandic name meaning "one who alternates between different parties", derived from the Proto-Eskimo root *
naverar "to trade, exchange" and the name suffix
na. In legend Navarana was an Inuit woman who brought about disunity by alternating between her tribe of native Greenlanders and the Norse colonists... [
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Nive f GreenlandicOld (Kleinschmidt orthography) spelling of
Nivi. This is borne by Greenlandic singer-songwriter and actress Nive Nielsen.
Niviaq f & m GreenlandicDerived from the Greenlandic word
niviarsiaq "girl" (compare
Niviarsiaq), possibly meaning "reincarnated as a girl".
Niviarsiaĸ f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "young woman or girl, maiden, girl of marriageable age", combined with
Niviaĸ and
-siaq "acquired as" or meaning "Rosebay Willowherb" (Name meanings depend per dialect).
Niviatsiaĸ f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "graceful, beautiful girl" with the combination of
Niviaĸ and suffix
-tsiaq "beautiful", "fair", "fairly good", "precious", "sweet", "fair-sized", "nice", "good", "handsome".
Nuiana f GreenlandicGreenlandic name of uncertain origin, possibly from
nuiaq "cloud" or from the stem
nui- "sewing, basket-making", combined with the name suffix
na.
Nukartâĸ m & f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "newborn younger sibling of speaker's gender".
Nukartâva f & m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "his/her new little brother/sister". Combination of
Nukartâĸ and suffix
-a, possessive-genitive marker.
Nûno f & m GreenlandicGreenlandic pet name for a baby/the youngest child in the family.
Pane f GreenlandicGreenlandic pet form of names beginning with
Pane-/Pani-.
Panínguaĸ f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning 'sweet little daughter' with the combination of
Panik and
-nnguaq 'sweet, dear'.
Patdleĸ m & f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "(dwarf) willow" or "alder" (Lat. Alnus crispa).
Pilo f & m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "bog bilberry, great bilberry, whortleberry".... [
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Piloĸutínguaĸ f & m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning 'sweet little leaf', from a combination of
Pilutaĸ and
-nnguaq, a Greenlandic suffix meaning "sweet", "dear", "little" or Grennlandic name meaning "sweet little berry", from a combination of
Piloĸ and
-nnguaq, a Greenlandic suffix meaning "sweet", "dear", "little".
Qooqqa f GreenlandicWest Greenlandic name of unknown meaning, perhaps related to
qooqqaq meaning "larynx".
Quiselpoo f Indigenous AmericanThe name of an Akokisa woman, recorded in a mission record (the Akokisa being an extinct Native American tribe in what is now Texas). It has been suggested that the name could mean "full moon woman", in part from Atakapa
ki.c "woman".
Qupanuk f GreenlandicOne of the many names in Greenlandic meaning "snow bunting". This is the name of Greenlandic influencer Qupanuk Olsen, better known as 'Q's Greenland'.
Rosannguaq f GreenlandicGreenlandic diminutive of
Rosa 1, formed using the suffix -
nnguaq meaning "sweet, dear, little". This is a recently coined Greenlandic name.
Rûsa f GreenlandicArchaic spelling of
Ruusa (according to the old Kleinschmidt orthography which was used to write Greenlandic until 1973, when orthographic reforms were introduced).