And don’t pick one because you “are” “Native American” unless you’ve confirmed via DNA test or were raised in Native culture, since family legend has us all part Cherokee princess. If you can’t do that, honestly a Native name should not even appeal to you at all. Before you choose a Native American name, do a little legwork and find out about the language you are taking from– make sure via cross referencing that you have an authentic name/word with correct pronunciations and respect for the culture and their language. I’d recommend mine, but it hasn’t been published yet! Mine isn’t really a dictionary per se, either… but I digress. Some are 75% garbage, some are only 5% untrue. Most baby name books you really can’t trust, in varying degrees. Please remember that usually Native American words are longer than English words, so if something has some long elaborate meaning, it would take a lot more syllables than 2 or 3 to express that thought. No offense, but I’m kind of glad Hazel ran out of time– less work for me! We just had Thanksgiving in the States, so I wanted to suck it up and do it, but what a dishonor we are still doing to the people with the BS that gets circulated. I truly love real Native American names, but so much misinformation is out there that if the topic comes up, I’m going to have to make some corrections. Usually I hesitate to bring up Native American names here, and this is why. Kʼai is Navajo for willow (close enough?).īaby name books or sites in general do not respect Native languages (or anything non-Euro, for that matter), so this is what I cautioned about. Nita is Choctaw for bear, so that was right. Ne-ahs-jah is the Navajo word for owl (close…). Mika does come from Ponca & related languages but only means “raccoon”… “knowing” is a romanticism. The Miwok word for salmon is ko-sum, btw. The Malila thing is so ridiculous I can’t believe it. Luna and Lusita are definitely not Native American, but maybe used by the population due to Spanish influence. So many more but don’t have time I’m not American, these are from a book, so cannot verify myself. Nova - Part of the word Supernova, means new in Latin Adrian - Means. Malila – Miwok salmon going fast up a rippling stream Marissa Meyer tries to pack meaning behind her names and Renegades is no different. I did specifically ask people to be careful, and keep respect for authenticity. On our page, after the Thanksgiving holiday, we asked our page with much hesitation what their favorite Native American names were.
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