American Names List

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Alabama - "vegetation gatherers"
Gender: Female
Origin: Place-name; Choctaw

Alaska - "great land"
Gender: Female
Origin: Native American

America - unknown meaning
Gender Unisex
Origin: Latin, place-name

Amerie - unknown meaning
Gender: Female
Origin: Modern invented name

Arizona - "little springs"
Gender: Female
Origin: Place-name from Papago Indian

Austin - "great, magnificent"
Gender: Unisex
Origin: English, shortened form of Augustine

Beyoncé - unknown meaning
Gender: Female
Origin: Invented name

Booker - "scribe"
Gender: Male
Origin: English occupational name

Boston - unknown meaning
Gender: Male
Origin: Place-name

Bronx - unknown meaning
Gender: Male
Origin: Place name

Brooklyn - unknown meaning
Gender: Unisex
Origin: Place-name

Carolina - "free man"
Gender: Female
Origin: Variation of Caroline; also place-name

Charleston - unknown meaning
Gender: Male
Origin: American place-name

Cherokee - unknown meaning
Gender: Unisex
Origin: Native American tribal name

Cheyenne - "people of a different language"
Gender: Unisex
Origin: Sioux

Clinton - "hilltop town"
Gender: Male
Origin: English

Dakota - "friendly one"
Gender: Unisex
Origin: Place-name; Sioux

Florida - "flowery"
Gender: Female
Origin: Latin

Free - unknown meaning
Gender: Unisex
Origin: Word name

Glory - unknown meaning
Gender: Female
Origin: Word name

Hawthorne - "lives where hawthorn hedges grow"
Gender: Male
Origin: English

Hemingway - unknown meaning
Gender: Male
Origin: English place-name

Hiawatha - "he makes rivers"
Gender: Male
Origin: From Iroquoi, Haio-hw'tha

Imala - "strong-minded"
Gender: Female
Origin: Native American

Indiana - unknown meaning
Gender: Unisex
Origin: Place-name

Jackson - "son of Jack"
Gender: Male
Origin: English

Janiya - "from Jana"
Gender: Female
Origin: Modern invented name; or Hebrew

Jefferson - "son of Jeffrey"
Gender: Male
Origin: English

July - unknown meaning
Gender: Unisex
Origin: Latin, month name

Kateri - "pure"
Pronunciation: ka-TEER-ee
Gender: Female
Origin: Mohawk version of Katherine

Kennedy - "misshapen head"
Gender: Unisex
Origin: Irish

Kimana - "butterfly"
Gender: Female
Origin: Native American, Shoshone

Lakota - "friend to us"
Gender: Unisex
Origin: Native American, Sioux

Latoya - unknown meaning
Gender: Female
Origin: Modern invented name

Liberty - unknown meaning
Gender: Female
Origin: Word name

Lincoln - "town by the pool"
Gender: Unisex
Origin: English

Madison - "son of Maud"
Gender: Unisex
Origin: English

Maverick - "independent, nonconformist"
Gender: Male
Origin: American

Mojave - unknown meaning
Pronunciation: moe-HAV-ay
Gender: Male
Origin: Native American tribal and place-name

Montana - "mountainous"
Gender: Unisex
Origin: Spanish place-name

Obama - "bending or leaning; little beach"
Gender: Male
Origin: Luo; Japanese

Phoenix - "dark red"
Gender: Unisex
Origin: Greek

Picabo - "silver creek"
Gender: Female
Origin: Native American

Reagan - "little king"
Gender: Unisex
Origin: Irish

Rebel - unknown meaning
Gender: Unisex
Origin: Word name

Savannah - "flat tropical grassland"
Gender: Female
Origin: Spanish

Sequoia - "sparrow"
Gender: Unisex
Origin: Native American, Cherokee

Sierra - "saw"
Gender: Unisex
Origin: Spanish

Sojourner - "to stay a while"
Gender: Female
Origin: French word name

Tahoe - "edge of the lake"
Gender: Unisex
Origin: Native American

Tallulah - "lady of abundance, or leaping water"
Gender: Female
Origin: Irish, Anglicised variation of Tuilelaith, or Choctaw

Tennessee - unknown meaning
Gender: Unisex
Origin: Native American, Cherokee, place-name

Tex - unknown meaning
Gender: Male
Origin: Place-name, nickname for state of Texas resident

Topanga - "where the mountain meets the sea"
Gender: Female
Origin: Native American

Virginia - "virginal, pure"
Gender: Female
Origin: Latin

Washington - "home of the Wassa people"
Gender: Male
Origin: English

Wyonna - "first-born daughter"
Gender: Female
Origin: Sioux Indian

Yosemite - "those who kill"
Gender: Male
Origin: Native American tribal name

Zayden - unknown meaning
Gender: Male
Origin: Modern invented name

Zooey - "life"
Gender: Unisex
Origin: Literary name or variation of Zoe, Greek

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