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KONAfGreenlandic (Archaic) Derived from Old Norse kona meaning "woman" or "wife", a loanword from the Norse period (985-1470) which was later used in the pidgin between European whalers and Greenlanders. The name Kona was common in Southern Greenland and later spread to Western and Northern Greenland.
KONELĪNEf & mNative American Tahltan word meaning "Our Land Beautiful," rarely used as a name.
K'ULOĸUTSUKmGreenlandic Possibly derived from Kwakiutl Indian quetutsa ("sparrow"). This is the name of a character in one of Greenland's best known myths.
KULOOQm & fGreenlandic Greenlandic pet form related to taannakulooq "the rather huge one".
KUMAGLAKmInuit, Popular Culture The name of the tribal chief in the 2001 Canadian film 'Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner', the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in Inuktitut. Set in the ancient past, the film retells an Inuit legend passed down through centuries of oral tradition.
KUSI-QUYLLURfQuechua, Literature Kusi Quyllur means "joyful star" in Quechua, from Quechua kusi, "joyful, happy", and quyllur, "star". Kusi Quyllur is the name of the princess in the Inca theatre drama Apu Ollantay.
KUZCOmPopular Culture, Quechua Emperor Kuzco is the main protagonist of the Disney animated film and television series "The Emperor's New Groove". His name was inspired by the ancient Incan city of Cuzco in modern Peru. The name of the city is derived from the Quechua name for it, Qusqu, with its origin in the Aymara language... [more]
KWAHUmHopi, Native American Native American Hopi name meaning 'eagle', also the name of a region in Ghana.
LARRONATAfNative American (Rare) The meaning of this name is "One with the sun". As Larron means "Sun" and Ata means "One with." This name been around for about two hundred years. This was find in the south east of America, and used by a small tribal area there.
LICARAYENfMapuche, New World Mythology Composed of Mapuche lica meaning "stone" and rayen "flower" (compare Rayen). In legend the beautiful maiden Licarayen sacrificed herself in order to stop the wrath of the evil spirit of the volcano Osorno from destroying her people; it was from the ashes and snow of her sacrifice that Lake Llanquihue in Chile was created.
LILAKAIfNavajo Meaning uncertain. It was borne by the first woman to be elected to the Navajo Tribal Council, Lilakai "Lily" Neil (served 1946-1951; "a full-blooded Navajo, born near Crownpoint, New Mexico in 1900").
LOMAHONGVAmHopi, Native American Hopi name meaning "reed standing tall and healthy", from lomá "good, beautiful" combined with hóngva "just raised, just stood up" (from hóng "raised up, erected, caused to stand" and the suffix va).
LOMASIm & fNative American Means "well adorned" in Hopi. From the Hopi lomá 'well, good, beautiful' and náci 'self blossomed (as in, covered in blossoms/flowers), adorned, dressed', or mási 'gray', referring to a species of bluebird.
MAGSERÁNGUAĸf & mGreenlandic Combination of massippoq "rising half up from horisontal position" and -nnguaq, meaning "sweet", "dear", "little". The Greenlandic author Karl Siegstad explains that the name means "flower which is raised up by the heat of the sun, whilst small pieces of ice are still above it" or it means "'sweet little healed one", combined with Mavsâraĸ and -nnguaq, "sweet", "dear", "little".
MAHAYLAfNative American Phonetic spelling of Mahala. In the 1800s, the names Mahala and Mahaley were fairly common among the southeastern Native American tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, etc). The origin is uncertain; possibly it was from a corruption of a native name, or from a corruption of mahei, the word for "woman" in the Tutelo and Saponi languages (two closely related, extinct southeastern Indian languages)... [more]
MAKAfSioux, New World Mythology Means "earth, ground, soil" in Lakota. In Oglala Lakota (Sioux) mythology, Makȟá (less correctly spelled Maka) was created by Íŋyaŋ ("stone"), then given the spirit Makȟá-akáŋl ("earth goddess").
MAKDÉBKImNative American Means "black partridge" in the Potawatomi language. This was the name of a chief of the Illinois River.
MAKKAPITEWmAlgonquin Means "he has large teeth" in Algonquin, from Algonquin mamàngàbide "to have large teeth".
MALÎNAfGreenlandic Means "the one to follow", cognate of malippaa ("to follow someone") and the suffix -na (denotes a personal name). In Greenlandic mythology Malîna is the goddess of the sun and the sister of Anningan, god of the moon... [more]
MALINAfInuit Mythology, Greenlandic In Inuit mythology, Malina is the name of a solar goddess. She is constantly fleeing from her brother, the moon god Igaluk (Inuit) or Anningan (Grenlandic), and their eternal chase explains the movement of the sun and moon through the sky.
MALINALXOCHITLfNahuatl Means "grass flower" in Nahuatl, from Nahuatl malinal, "grass" and xochitl, "flower". In Aztec mythology, Malinalxochitl is a beautiful sorceress and sister of Huitzilopochtli.
MALÎNÁNGUAĸfGreenlandic Greenlandic name meaning "sweet little one to follow", combined with Malîna and -nnguaq "sweet, dear".
MALINTZINfNahuatl This is a variant of Malinali which means "Goddess of Grass." Malintzin is the honorific version with the suffix 'tzin' being the equivalent of 'Ma'am' or 'Lady.'
MÁNGILIKfGreenlandic Greenlandic name meaning "the one with the drum song", from a combination of manngaluartoq "singing (drum-)songs" and -lik, a Greenlandic suffix meaning "equipped with" that denotes that the the root word is a form of amulet or helper spirit.
MASIKm & fGreenlandic From Greenlandic masik meaning "the curved cross-tree in front of the ring of a kayak" and from Greenlandic masik meaning "gills (of a fish)", depending per dialect.
MATOmSioux Means "bear; fiercely angry" in Lakota. From the Lakota matȟó 'bear; to be fiercely angry, to be a shark at'.
MATOAKAfAlgonquin Of unknown meaning. This was one of Pocahontas's 'secret' names. At the time Pocahontas was born, it was common for Powhatan Native Americans to be given several personal names, to have more than one name at the same time, to have secret names that only a select few knew, and to change their names on important occasions... [more]
MAYALENfNahuatl, Mexican Mayalen alteration of the name Mayahuel (Nahuatl pronunciation: maˈjawel) is the female divinity associated with the maguey plant among cultures of central Mexico in the Postclassic era of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology, and in particular of the Aztec cultures... [more]
