Disney Baby Names

This unisex Native American name offers a good substitution to Dakota.

Borne by a character in the Disney film, Moana 2, Loto is a short but distinctive name that likely derives from Maori or Samoan and means "heart". It might also work as a short form of Lotonui meaning "big heart".

Borne by a character in the Disney film, Moana 2, Moni is possibly of Samoan origin, in which it means "true". Alternatively, it could be a short form of Vanimonimo, meaning "expanse of blue sky", or in the context of the film, a contraction of the island setting, Montunui, meaning "big island".

Used in the novel and subsequent Disney movie Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century , Zenon is typically a masculine name of Greek and Polish origin, however, in the book and film, it was used for a girl who lives on a space station and is sent to earth as a punishment.

A rare feminine form of Simon, Shimei, or Simeon, Simea also appears in the 2024 Disney movie, Moana 2. In this case, the name is a twist on Samea (the director David Derrick Jr's daughter's name) which could come from the Arabic Samiya or from the Hebrew Samuel.

Matangi a Hindu goddess and an aspect of Parvati, the Divine Mother. She rules over speech, knowledge, music, and the arts and worshipping her is said to allow people to control their enemies and become a master in the arts. Some sources suggest her name means "one whose limbs are intoxicated with passion".

Kele is both a Native American name, used by the Hopi people to mean "sparrow hawk", and a name of Hawaiian origin. In the latter case, it sometimes appears as part of a name, usually in a Hawaiian variation of an English name, such as Anakele from Andrew or Kelemi from Jeremy. It could therefore mean "call", "sound", or "equal", reflecting that it is a Hawaiian name that sounds or is equal to another.