• Origin: Greenlandic
• Meaning: “snowflake; ice crystal.”
• Gender: Unisex, mostly male

The name comes from the Greenlandic word for snowflake or ice crystal.

An older form is Aputsiak.

Sources

• https://www.behindthename.com/name/aputsiaq
• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Aputsiaq
• https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Aputsiaq
• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Greenlandic_given_names#P