Guarani
names are used by the Guarani people of South America.
Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.
Abaangui m GuaraniThe name of a god from Guaraní mythology credited with creating the moon.
Amaru f GuaraniMeans “rain” in Guaraní. It symbolizes the grace that parents feel when they discover that they will receive a daughter.
Ao Ao m GuaraniName of the Guaraní god of fertility, whose offspring served as the protectors of the hills and mountains. The name is derived from the sound the creature is said to make when pursuing victims.
Arami f GuaraniDiminutive of Guarani word
ára meaning "sky, heavens".
Ka'akupe m & f GuaraniMeans "behind the forest" in Guarani, taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
la Virgen de Caacupé.
Kerana f GuaraniEtymology unknown. This is the name of the Guarani goddess of sleep.
Naiá f Tupi, GuaraniPer the legend, an indigenous tribe believed that the moon was the goddess Jaci, who came at night and kissed and lit up the faces of the most beautiful virgins in the village. When the moon hid behind the mountain, she would take girls with her and turn them into stars.... [
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Sypavê f GuaraniEtymology uncertain. This is the name of the first woman in Guarani mythology.
Tabaré m South American, Guarani (Hispanicized, ?), Tupi (Hispanicized, ?)Chiefly Uruguayan name, allegedly of Guarani or Tupi origin and meaning "village man" or "one who lives far from town". The Uruguayan poet Juan Zorrilla de San Martín used it for the title hero of his epic poem
Tabaré (1888), which depicts the tragic love between Tabaré, an indigenous Charrúa man, and Blanca, the sister of a Spanish conquistador.
Yamandú m Tupi, GuaraniMeans "the precursor of the waters (of the world)" in Tupi-Guaraní.