Baby Name: Kainoakupuna

I love coming across personal names with definitions that refer to names. Some examples:

• Behnam means “good name” in Persian.
• Hieronymus, meaning “sacred name,” is based on the Greek words hieros, “sacred,” and onoma, “name.”
  • Jerome is the English form of Hieronymus.
    • Jerónimo is the Spanish form of Jerome.
  • Jheronimus was the form of Hieronymus used by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516).
• Kainoa, meaning “the namesake,” is based on the Hawaiian words ka, “the” (singular), and inoa, “name.”
  • Kainoakupuna means “the namesake of one’s ancestor.”
• Nainoa, meaning “the namesakes,” is based on the Hawaiian words na, “the” (plural), and inoa, “name.”
• Nergüi means “no name” in Mongolian.
• Shem means “name” in Hebrew. (The eldest of Noah’s three sons was called Shem.)
  • Sem is a variant form of Shem. (It’s popular in The Netherlands right now.)

Do you know of any others?

Image: Adapted from Jheronimus Bosch 006 central panel 03 detail 01 (public domain)