Names That Mean Native

A rare name that rose briefly in the trail of Donna. Tonna has Choctaw roots.

The Navajo word for "brother" bears resemblance to the biblical place name Shiloh. If you have Navajo heritage, this is one to consider.

Manhattan is the smallest yet one of the most populous New York City boroughs. The area was historically inhabited by Munsee Lenape and Wappinger tribes of Native Americans, and the name Manhattan is derived from the Munsee Lenape language. Hickory trees that were used to make bows grew on the southern part of Manhattan, which inspired the term manaháhtaan, from the Munsee Lenape words for "gather" and "bow."

A feminine name in Choctaw culture.

Hurricane is a wild weather name. The best-known male named Hurricane is Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a middleweight boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder and immortalized by the 1975 Bob Dylan song Hurricane.

A name from the Choctaw tribe of Mississippi and Alabama.

A masculine name in Choctaw culture.

Carries a different meaning in American English. You may also like Sootima.

A unisex name used in the Comanche Native American culture.

One of numerous names that could have been given to Choctaw men after a successful hunt.

Yancy has begun to rise in usage among baby girls, perhaps in part due to the similarity to the classically feminine name Nancy.

The creator god of the sky, wind, and knowledge in Aztec mythology, also associated with the morning star. In Mesoamerican myth Quetzalcoatl is also a mythical hero from whom almost all Mesoamerican peoples claim descent.

The Native name of Washington State's Mount Ranier.

A name given among the Choctaw tribe of Mississippi and Oklahoma.

Kree, a variant of the Native American Cree tribe name, is one of the most evenly split unisex names between the sexes.

Traditional Choctaw male name.

Malibu, the name of a California beach city, evokes sunshine, surfing, and glamour. With its fashionable "oo" sound — as seen in names like Luna and Ruby — Malibu is an unexplored place name worth considering.

This phonetic spelling of Quetzalli — a rare and lovely Nahuatl name, which literally means "quetzal feather" after the quetzal bird — was given to around the same number of baby girls as the original in 2022 (a few dozen).

Rare but beautiful variant of the rising name Yareli, which itself derives from Yara — one of the fastest rising names right now.