jocatchi's Personal Name List

Apotropaic Names
223Tiefling Names
448Tree/Plant Words
231
Names meant to protect the bearer, or refer to their birth in some way.
Name M/F Remark
Ababuo f
Abaskantos m  "protected against enchantments, free from harm" 
Abayomi m & f
Abeke f  "one begged to care for" 
Abiba f
Achaje m  "stranger" 
Adisoda f
Aduke f
Afogori m & f  "s/he gets buried around" (Banjal/Bandial) [death prevention name] 
Agyegyesεm m & f  "trouble making" 
Ahamefuna m & f
Ahmicqui f & m  "something that does not die" (Nahuatl) 
Aimut m  "may he not die" (Amharic) 
Aina f
Ajani m
Akpoebi f & m
Akpomofa f & m
Alabrah m
Alter m  "old" (Yiddish) 
Amadi 2 m  "seemed destined to die at birth" (Yoruba) 
Ammenguyyah m
Amr m
Amran m
Amul-yaakaar m & f  "s/he has no hope" (Wolof) [death prevention name] 
Angerlarneq f  "she who has returned home" after dead family member (South Greenlandic) 
Antobam f
Asaaseasa m & f  "the land is finished" - no more land for burials, stay here (Akan) 
Asabi f
Asefi f  "enough girls" (Haitian Creole) 
Aselom m  "enough men" (Haitian Creole) 
Astruc m
Auma f
Awiti f  "thrown away" (Luo) 
Awiti f
Awuor f
Azmaveth m
Bafiske f
Balijekwao f
Bayenkhu f
Beduna m  "is it bad?" (uncertain source) 
Bēl-bullissu m
Beninye f & m
Bobe f
Bodisere f
Bompaka m & f
Botagoz f  "[baby] camel eye" - evil eye? (Kazakh) 
Burul f
Cawil m
Çetulo f  "died coming" (Banjal/Bandial) [death prevention name] 
Chaćko m
Child-of-God m & f  Given to child expected to die at/soon after birth (Puritan) 
Chilufya m & f
Chimika f & m  herb used to carry pregnancy to term (Tumbuka) 
Chiwa f
Choćka m
Confortata f  “comforted” (Latin) augurative name, given after death of previous child 
Consolat m  "consoled, comforted" (Latin) often given to a child born after the death of another 
Creature f & m  infants who survived birth just long enough to be baptised (Medieval English) 
Dambuzgho f
Deulegard m
Dikaya m & f  "is going nowhere" (Manjak) [death prevention name] 
Dinkyene m & f  "eat salt" - symbolises being alive (Akan) 
Diotallevi m
Enebish f & m  "not this one" (Mongolian) 
Erşi m & f
Eutychus m
Fedude m & f  "death has ended" - marks end of premature death in family (Ijaw) 
Felagha f & m  "death has not reached me" (Ijaw) 
Fundin m
Genendel f
Genubath m
Gnendel f
God-help m & f  prayer for help if mother and/or child’s life is in danger (Puritan) 
Gorgonios m
Grímr m
Guondibo m & f  "they inter you there" (Banjal/Bandial) [death prevention name] 
Gurias m
Guyyah m  "graves" - short form [Ammenguyyah] (Bandial) 
Gvozden m
Hai m
Hamunyari f
Have-mercy f & m  prayer for mercy if mother and/or child’s life is in danger (Puritan) 
Hazviperi m & f
Hok'ee m
Iredia m  "stay" (Esan) 
Isazo m & f
Izbylut m
Jelda f
Jilele m
Joli f
Joy-again f  birth after previous loss (Puritan) 
Joy-againe m & f  birth after previous loss (Puritan) 
Kambondoo m
Kamenko m
Katuma m  "to send" - last-born of triplets, not to be sent on errands (Luba) 
Kaya 1 m  "carrier of load" (Akan) [death prevention name]* 
Kéehu m & f  "the one who dies" or "the dead one" (Manjak) [death prevention name] 
Ketugay m & f  "die till you get tired of it" (Jola) 
Khasar m  "a fearsome dog" - refers to stone guard dog/lion OR "archer" (Mongolian) 
Khenbish f & m  "nobody" (Mongolian) 
Khivchuk f
Khünbish m & f  "not human" (Mongolian) 
Kokumo m & f  "he will not die anymore" (Yoruba) [Abiku name] 
Kuchinei m
Kudzoka f
Kutuna  "favorite; intimate" OR "amulet [to ward off evil/evil eye]" (Basque) 
Kwento m
Lepădat m
Lífgjarn m
Mabayoje m & f
Maidei f
Majekodunmi m & f
Masiye m & f
Matla f
Medekhgüi f & m  "I don't know" (Mongolian) 
Merkada f
Merkado m
Meshullam m
Motlagomang f & m
Muneyinazvo f & m
Mutunga m  "to return, replace, put back" - replacement for the departed (Kamba) see also Katunga, Mutungwa, Musyoka 
Muunokhoi m  "vicious dog" (Mongolian) 
Nakusha f
Nasqida m
Nawoj m
Nayden m  "found" (Bulgarian) 
Nduefuna m & f
Nekhii m & f  "sheepskin" (Mongolian) 
Nekras
Nemo m  "nobody" (Latin) 
Nergüi m & f  "no name" (Mongolian) 
Netsai f  "trouble, annoy, bother" (Shona) 
Niftyuk f
Nkhumbwizhya m & f  “admire for a while” (Nsenga), given after death of older siblings 
Nnyeyam m & f
Nonhelema f  "not a man" (Shawnee) 
Nugai m  "dog" (Mongolian) 
Nyamayarwo m & f
Nymandus m  "nobody" - given to orphans as given or byname (Germanic) see also Nemo 
Obulor m
Ochan m
Ogbodo m & f
Oghul Qaimish f  "next time a boy" (Mongolian) 
Ogtbish f & m  "not at all" (Mongolian) 
Ojo m  child born with umbilical cord around neck (Yoruba) 
Ojwang m
Ombana m & f
Omotunde m  "the child has returned" (Yoruba) 
Ondiek m  determined to survive; lit. "hyena" (Luo) 
Onwuegbunam m & f
Onwutalobi m
Oprea f  "to stop" (Romanian) hoping this is the last child born into a family 
Oresanwo m
Orshikh m & f
Orvo m
Otaiku m  "a hard stone can not die" (Yoruba) 
Owiti m
Owo m
Panji m & f  “maybe” (Tumbuka) as in “maybe he will grow” 
Pausilypos m
Pheko m
Phila m & f
Piran m
Pomare m & f  "night cough" - changed name after death of child (Tahitian) 
Preserved m & f  child spared from certain death during childbirth (Puritan) 
Prodan m
Prodana f  "sold" (Serbian) 
Regai m
Relictus m
Rron m
Rytgėv m
Rytkheu m
Safe-on-high m & f  given to children expected to die (Puritan) 
Safe-on-highe m  'Often given to children expected to perish. References the safety of a child in Heaven versus earth' 
Satılmış m
Saubar m
Shaka m  stomach cramp caused by an intestinal parasite 
Sharmaarke m  "see no evil" or "protect from evil" (Somali) 
Sinh m & f
Skyldfri f  "innocent, guiltless" - foundlings/girls born out of wedlock (Danish) 
Sorghaghtani f  "pox girl" (Mongolian) 
Staniša m
Stemma f  "to stop" (Judeo-Greek) hoping to stop having daughters 
Taiwo m & f  "taste the world, taste life" (Yoruba) for first of twins 
Tambudzai f  "make trouble, frustrate" (Shona) 
Tangman m
Tanyaradzwa f
Tatadzeiko f
Taymaskhan m
Tekena f & m
Tenabaabi m & f
Terbish m & f  "not that one" (Mongolian) 
Tichaona m  "we will see" (Shona) 
Tin m & f
Ti-sái m  "hog manure" (Taiwanese) [given to ward off evil spirits] 
Todini m & f
Tokin'aina m & f
Toktar m  "let it stay" (Kazakh) 
Tolegen m  "paid” - after death of male family member (Kazakh) 
Torevei m & f
Towera f  "beauty, beautiful" - given to a child born after death(s) of a preceding sibling (Tumbuka) 
Trajko m  "to last" (Macedonian) 
Tsiafoy m & f
Turar m & f  "will live" - given to child not expected to live (Kazakh) 
Tursun m
Tursyn m  "let him live" (Karakalpak) 
Tursynbek m  "let it live" + "chieftain, master" (Karakalpak) 
Tygrynkeev m
Úfeigr m  "not fey, not doomed to die" (Old Norse) 
Ultuar f
Vakona f  "unwanted" 
Vinevyt f  "deceased" 
Vopiscus m  unknown; pos. given to a child whose twin was stillborn (Latin) 
Waibodei m & f  "has returned again" 
Yeggul-ngon m & f  "s/he has not reached the afternoon" (Wolof) [death prevention name] 
Yibanathi m & f  "be with us" 
Yue f & m  supposedly "tragic accident" in Japanese, given to infants who die soon after birth [http://bewitchingnames.blogspot.com/2012/11/name-round-up-last-airbender-and-legend.html?m=1] 
Yurena f  "evil spirit" (Guanche) 
Zavida m  "to envy" - prevent spirits from envying (Serbian) 
Zaviša m  see Zavida 
Zbywoj m
Zeyde m  "grandfather" 
Zvidzai m  "despise, look down upon" (shona)