Name List: Apotropaic Names

Apotropaic Names
223Tiefling Names
450Tree/Plant Words
231
Names meant to protect the bearer, or refer to their birth in some way.
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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)