This page collects incan names, each with its meaning, origin, gender and numerology on its own detail page. Browse them 100 at a time below, or jump to boy or girl names by their first letter. Tap any name to read its full meaning and background.
Meaning: wild quinoa, sacred Andean grain; from Quechua/Aymara ayara — a wild relative of cultivated quinoa (Chenopodium…
Origin: quechua, aymara, incan, peruvian
Gender: unisex
Meaning: Pepper; chili; the sharp one — Quechua Uchu
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian, native-american
Gender: boy
Meaning: fox, cunning one; from Quechua atoq ("Andean fox", Lycalopex culpaeus); in Andean folklore Atoq is the trickster of…
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian
Gender: boy
Meaning: avocado; from Quechua paltay, the Andean name for the avocado fruit (Persea americana) which has been cultivated in…
Origin: quechua, incan
Gender: boy
Meaning: peanut, ground-nut; from Quechua inchik (Arachis hypogaea); the peanut was a sacred Andean crop domesticated in the…
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian
Gender: boy
Meaning: God of the underworld; lord of mining — Incan/Quechua Supay
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian, native-american
Gender: boy
Meaning: thunder, lightning god; from Quechua illapa ("thunderbolt"); Illapa was the great Inca weather god ruling thunder…
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian
Gender: boy
Meaning: lord of death and renewal; in pre-Inca Peruvian mythology of the Norte Chico coast, Vichama is the son of the…
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian
Gender: boy
Meaning: parrot, talking bird; from Quechua uritu ("parrot"); the talking parrots of the Amazonian lowlands were prized by…
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian
Gender: unisex
Meaning: Sweet potato; tuber — a Quechua name from the Andean tradition
Origin: quechua, peruvian, incan, south american
Gender: boy
Meaning: sacred stone, of the Wanka people; from Quechua wanka — both a sacred-stone idol revered by Andean peoples (a frozen…
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian
Gender: boy
Meaning: falcon, hunting hawk; from Quechua waman ("hunting falcon, peregrine"); a variant of Guaman; borne by Felipe Guaman…
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian
Gender: boy
Meaning: Turkey buzzard; the keen-sighted scavenger — Incan/Quechua
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian, native-american
Gender: boy
Meaning: high mountain plateau; from Quechua puna, the high-altitude grassland (3, 000m) of the central Andes where llamas…
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian
Gender: boy
Meaning: Plum; the sweet fruit — Incan/Quechua
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian, native-american
Gender: boy
Meaning: skunk; from Quechua añas ("skunk"); an animal-name common in the Inca tradition of bestowing power-animal titles on…
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian
Gender: boy
Meaning: falcon, hawk; from Quechua waman ("hunting falcon, peregrine"); a name of high Inca prestige — borne by Felipe…
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian
Gender: boy
Meaning: earth-shaker, world-changer; from Quechua pacha ("earth, time, world") + kutiy ("to turn, transform"); borne by the…
Origin: quechua, incan
Gender: boy
Meaning: small bird, songbird; from Quechua pisqu/pisco ("bird"); also the name of the Pisco Valley of southern Peru — and of…
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian
Gender: boy
Meaning: Beans; the bean-grower — Incan/Quechua
Origin: incan, quechua, peruvian, native-american
Gender: boy
Meaning: pacay tree; from Quechua pacay (Inga feuillei), the Andean "ice-cream bean" tree whose sweet white pulp has been…
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian
Gender: boy
Meaning: Goddess of the moon — the Incan/Aymara lunar deity
Origin: incan, quechua, aymara, native-american
Gender: girl
Meaning: one who flies; from Quechua phaway ("to fly, to run swiftly"); suggesting speed, agility, and a free spirit, evoking…
Origin: quechua, incan
Gender: boy
Meaning: celestial llama, guardian of beasts; from Quechua urku-chillay; Urcuchillay was the Inca constellation now known as…
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian
Gender: boy
Meaning: duck; from Quechua ñuñuma ("duck"); the Andean ducks of Lake Titicaca and the high puna lakes feature in pre-Inca…
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian
Gender: unisex
Meaning: Sparrow; the little bird — Incan/Quechua
Origin: incan, quechua, peruvian, native-american
Gender: boy
Meaning: Andean deer, North Andean deer; from Quechua taruka (Hippocamelus antisensis, the North Andean deer of the high…
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian
Gender: boy
Meaning: maguey plant, Andean century-plant; from Quechua chuchaw (Agave americana); the maguey in Andean tradition was a…
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian
Gender: boy
Meaning: Goddess of the forest; mother of the woods — Quechuan
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian, native-american
Gender: girl
Meaning: hummingbird; from Quechua q'enti — the iridescent Andean bird considered a messenger between worlds in Inca…
Origin: quechua, incan
Gender: boy
Meaning: god of high-altitude snowstorms; in Aymara-Quechua tradition Khuno (also spelled Khuño) is the god of snowstorms…
Origin: quechua, aymara, incan, peruvian
Gender: boy
Meaning: Melon; the sweet fruit — Incan/Quechua
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian, native-american
Gender: boy
Meaning: Goddess of the lake — the Incan/Aymara deity of Lake Titicaca
Origin: incan, aymara, quechua, native-american
Gender: girl
Meaning: mother of quinoa; from Quechua kinuwa ("quinoa") + mama ("mother"); Quinua Mama was the Andean grain-mother spirit…
Origin: quechua, incan, peruvian
Gender: girl