Cultural Baby Names
23 Cultural names with meanings, U.S. popularity, and audio pronunciation on every page.
Explore 23 baby names with a cultural feel. Every name links to a full page with its sourced meaning, origin, popularity chart, famous bearers, and a clear audio pronunciation. Names are listed most-popular first.
Cultural Girl Names
Amaia#555 in the U.S.From Basque Amaia, derived from ama ('mother') and the suffix -ia or -aia, possibly meaning 'th▶Harlem#1298 in the U.S.Home on wooded land; from the Dutch city Haarlem▶Sakura#3001 in the U.S.Cherry blossom (桜); in Japanese culture a universal symbol of beauty, renewal, and impermanence▶Kayomi#3190 in the U.S.Japanese name written with kanji such as 香世美 or 花世美, meaning 'fragrant/beautiful generation, be▶Iyanla#8662 in the U.S.Iyanla is drawn from Yoruba, where iya means 'mother' and nla means 'great' - read together as ▶Maui#14596 in the U.S.A place name — the Hawaiian island of Maui — and, in Polynesian tradition across Hawaii, Aotear▶Teuila#15037 in the U.S.Teuila is the Samoan name for the torch ginger, the national flower of Samoa, and it gives its ▶Zoua#16595 in the U.S.Zoua is a Hmong given name carried by many Hmong-American girls and women. It is a familiar ele▶Pakou#16620 in the U.S.Pakou is a traditional Hmong feminine name carried to the United States by Hmong families. It i▶Sumnima#17838 in the U.S.From Nepali Kirat (Limbu) tradition, Sumnima is a revered ancestral and mythic first woman, hon▶AteteFrom the Oromo of Ethiopia, Atete is tied to a fertility figure and women's blessing ritual; as▶TzeitelA Yiddish pet form of Sarah (Hebrew, 'princess; noblewoman'). Tzeitel is the eldest daughter in▶
Cultural Boy Names
Zaire#503 in the U.S.From the Kikongo word nzadi o nzere meaning 'the river that swallows all rivers,' referring to ▶Brixton#744 in the U.S.From the London district name Brixton, from Old English meaning 'Brixi's stone' or 'Brixi's set▶Dakari#837 in the U.S.From the Shona language of Zimbabwe, meaning 'joy' or 'happiness'; used as a given name in Zimb▶Harlem#971 in the U.S.From Dutch Haarlem, composed of haer meaning sandy soil or wooded area and lem meaning home or ▶Nakai#3073 in the U.S.From the Navajo word nakai, historically meaning Mexican or foreigner, but also used as a clan ▶Kunte#4379 in the U.S.Kunte is closely tied to Kunta Kinte, the Mandinka ancestor at the heart of Alex Haley's novel ▶Micheaux#6987 in the U.S.Micheaux is a French surname, a diminutive-style form connected to Michel, the French Michael, ▶Demba#9814 in the U.S.A West African name, common among the Serer and wider Senegalese communities; often a tradition▶Yuta#10742 in the U.S.Yuta is a common Japanese masculine name given here in romaji, its Latin-letter spelling. Its m▶Kiowa#13310 in the U.S.Kiowa is the English name of the Kiowa Tribe, a Native American nation of the Southern Plains, ▶Samurai#13834 in the U.S.From Japanese samurai, from a verb meaning 'to serve' — literally 'one who serves'. It names th▶
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Popular Cultural baby names include Zaire, Amaia, Brixton, Dakari, Harlem, Harlem. Each page has the meaning, popularity, and an audio pronunciation.
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