Indigenous Latin American (Nahuatl, Quechua, Tupi and others) names
56 names from the Indigenous Latin American (Nahuatl, Quechua, Tupi and others) naming tradition, each with its meaning, origin, pronunciation and how it is seen around the world.
- AmaruBoyQuechua for "snake", also the name of a serpent-like being in Andean legend.
- AmeyalliGirlFrom Nahuatl āmēyalli: a natural spring, built on ātl "water" and a root describing water welling up.
- AsiriGirlQuechua for "smile".
- AtahualpaBoyUsually glossed "fortunate fowl", from Quechua ataw "fortunate, lucky" and wallpa "hen, fowl".
- CauãBoyFrom the Tupi word kaûã, for a bird of prey such as a hawk or falcon.
- CipactliUnisexFrom Nahuatl cipactli, a crocodile or caiman; also the first of the twenty day signs in the Aztec ritual calendar.
- CitlalliGirlFrom Nahuatl citlalli, "star".
- CuauhtémocBoyFrom Nahuatl Cuauhtemoc, "descending eagle", joining cuāuhtli "eagle" with a form of temo "to come down".
- EhecatlBoyNahuatl for "wind": the name the Aztecs gave their god of wind and breath.
- GuaraciBoyFrom the Old Tupi word kûaraçy, "sun", which Tupi-Guarani mythology personifies as the sun god.
- IaraGirlCombines Tupi y, "water", with îara, "lady, mistress", giving "lady of the water".
- IntiBoyQuechua for "sun", and the name the Inca gave their supreme solar deity.
- IracemaGirlJoins Tupi eíra, "honey", and tembé, "lip", to give something close to "honey lips".
- IraciGirlPairs Tupi eíra, "honey", with çy, "mother".
- ItzamnaBoyThe name of the Maya creator god, built from Classic Maya elements that scholars read variously as "iguana house" or…
- ItzcoatlBoyFrom Nahuatl Itzcoatl, "obsidian serpent", from itztli "obsidian" and cōātl "serpent".
- Jaci (Indigenous Latin American (Nahuatl, Quechua, Tupi and others))UnisexThe Tupi word îaçy, "moon".
- JaciaraGirlJoins Tupi îasy, "moon", with îara, "lady" or "lord", giving "moon lady".
- JaciraGirlA Tupi compound of îaçy, "moon", and eíra, "honey", often rendered together as "honey moon".
- JandiraGirlSaid to come from a Tupi word connected with a honey-producing bee, though the exact root has not been settled.
- JuraciUnisexA Tupi compound of îuru, "mouth", and çy, "mother, origin", without one settled English translation.
- KillaGirlQuechua for "moon".
- MaiaraGirlUsually read as "lady of fortune", from Tupi mbaé, "wealth, riches", and îara, "lady, mistress", though some connect it…
- MalinalliGirlFrom Nahuatl malinalli, a twisted wild grass; also the twelfth of the twenty day signs in the Aztec ritual calendar.
- MetztliUnisexNahuatl for "moon": the name given to the Aztec deity of the moon and the night sky.
- MiskiGirlQuechua for "honey", from an adjective that also means "sweet".
- MoacirBoyFrom Tupi moaçy, said to mean "pain, regret, grief".
- MotecuhzomaBoyIn Nahuatl, built from mo- (a reflexive prefix), tēuctli ("lord") and the verb zōma ("to frown, to be wrathful")…
- NayeliGirlOf disputed origin: it is usually traced to the Zapotec words for "I love you" or for "open".
- Nina (Indigenous Latin American (Nahuatl, Quechua, Tupi and others))GirlFrom Quechua: "fire".
- PachakutiqBoyRoughly "one who transforms the world": pacha means "world" or "time", kutiy is the verb "to change" or "to turn back"…
- QuetzalliGirlIn Nahuatl, the long tail feather of the resplendent quetzal, and by extension anything precious or beautiful.
- QuispeUnisexFrom Quechua qispi "free"; the identical Hispanicized spelling can also stand for q'ispi "glass, crystal".
- TamyaGirlQuechua for "rain".
- TlalliGirlThe Nahuatl word for earth, land or soil.
- TlalocBoyOf uncertain root, perhaps tied to Nahuatl tlalli "earth, land, soil": what the Aztecs called their god of rain and…
- TonalliUnisexIn Nahuatl, a word for a day and for the sun's warmth.
- TonatiuhBoyNahuatl for "sun": the name of the Aztec god of the sun.
- TupaqBoyQuechua for "royal" or "noble".
- TutaGirlQuechua for "night".
- UbirajaraBoyA Tupi compound of ybyrá, "wood, spear", and îara, "lord, master", together read as "lord of the spear".
- UbiratanBoyA Tupi compound of ybyrá, "wood, spear", and atã, "strong, hard", together read as "strong spear".
- UrpiGirlQuechua for "dove" or "pigeon", also used as a term of endearment.
- WamanBoyQuechua for "eagle" or "falcon".
- WaynaBoyQuechua for "youth" or "young man".
- WayraBoyQuechua for "wind" or "air".
- XiadaniGirlPopularly glossed in Zapotec as "the flower that has arrived", though the word-by-word breakdown is not firmly settled.
- XochiquetzalGirlBuilt from Nahuatl xochitl "flower" and quetzalli "precious feather": what the Aztecs called their goddess of love…
- XochitlGirlThe Nahuatl word for flower.
- XquendaUnisexFrom Zapotec guenda, "spirit" or "soul", joined with the possessive prefix x- to mean roughly "one's own spirit".
- YolotlUnisexThe Nahuatl word for heart, also used for a person's inner spirit.
- YolotzinUnisexFrom Nahuatl yōllōtl ("heart") with the reverential ending -tzin, so roughly "dear heart."
- YoloxochitlGirlBuilt from two Nahuatl words, yōllōtl for "heart" and xōchitl for "flower", so together the name reads as "heart…
- YuraqUnisexQuechua for "white".
- ZeltzinGirlPopularly explained as "delicate" or "tender" in Nahuatl, though the exact roots behind the name are not firmly settled.
- ZyanyaGirlThought to carry the sense of "always" or "forever" in Zapotec, though this reading is not fully confirmed.