- Origin: Shona
- Meaning: “you have given us.”
- Gender: Unisex
Derived from the Shona makatipa, meaning, “you have given us.”
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Munashe
- Origin: Shona
- Meaning: “the Lord is with us; the Lord is within us.”
- Gender: Unisex
- Pron: moo-NAH-sheh
A Shona theophoric unisex name, it is from a phrase mu ne ishe (the Lord is with us or the Lord is within us).
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Aputsiaq
- 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.
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Mairen
- Origin: Manipuri (Meitei) ꯃꯥꯏꯔꯦꯟ
- Meaning: “pumpkin.”
- Variant transcription: Mairel
- Gender: Unisex
The name comes directly from the Manipuri word ꯃꯥꯏꯔꯦꯟ (mairen), meaning “pumpkin.”
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Tendai
- Origin: Shona
- Meaning: “to be thankful.”
- Gender: Unisex
- TEN-dye
From the Shona word tenda or kutenda (to give thanks), it is technically unisex but slightly more common for boys.
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Ayotzin
- Origin: Nahuatl
- Meaning: “pumpkin, gourd, squash; or “turtle, tortoise.”
- Variant: Aiotzin.
- Gender: unisex
From the Nahuatl word ayotli (pumpkin, gourd, squash) or directly from the Nahuatl word, ayotzin (turtle, tortoise).
It was borne by a Chichimec ruler but modern use in Mexico is exclusively feminine.
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- Wood, Stephanie, editor. “Ayotzin.” Online Nahuatl Dictionary, Wired Humanities Projects, College of Education, University of Oregon, 2000–present, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayotzin. Accessed 23 Nov. 2025.
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ayotzin
Tebogo
- Origin: Tswana
- Meaning: “gratitude.”
- Gender: Unisex
The name comes from the Tswana word for gratitude.
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Ekene
- Origin: Igbo
- Meaning: “thanks; gratitude.”
- Gender: Unisex
- EH-KEH-NEH
The name is from the Igbo meaning “thanks; gratitude.”
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Kohu
- Origin: Maori
- Meaning: “mist; fog.”
- Gender: Unisex
The name comes directly from the Maori word for “mist; fog; haze; smog.”
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Hãng
- Origin: Vietnamese 沆
- Meaning: “mist; evening fog.”
- Gender: Unisex
From the Sino-Vietnamese meaning 沆, meaning “mist; evening fog.”
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