I researched a couple of villager names at reference.com and found a few interesting meanings.
I also saw Unagi at a sushi shop and was wondering what it meant, that is what motivated me to research the names.

Poema - puma in dutch
Unagi - an eel
Tuna - a type of fish (as we all know)
Ashby - a city in america
City - a large town
Huka - load
Zen - chinese buddhism

If you have any more feel free to post them.

Oh and also, Mali is a country in africa

I think thats pretty cool

Wow that is cool now we no what the names mean thanks Becca !!!

Dada is a form of art

Well, now we know why the GIRLS are called dada LOL

I had a little girl named Dada in the lost children.Right after she was two and running around another baby came.She was still two when the baby was two and now the two of them are running around together.I named the second one Mama.To match her sister's name.

How did you get villagers with the names "Poema" and "Ashby"?? Also, Bali is an island in Indonesia.

"Malo" means bad in Spanish. I also saw someone post that "Kissa" means cat in Finnish.

Obi is a Japanese word referring to several different types of sashes worn with kimono and keikogi by both men and women.

Some of the names are actually normal, such as "Tara" and "Alana". "Bobo" means clown or fool in Spanish. "Dodo" is a kind of bird that is now extinct. "Paco" is a spanish name that is a nickname for Francisco. I understand how Carla could come up with all these names because her profile says she likes languages. I also like languages and currently take Spanish. Maybe I will eventually write my posts in multiple languages.

Konnen wir einige Namen in Deutsch?!

Fraulein Carla,
Gibt es ein Forum, in dem wir sprechen Deutsch?

- GlucklichSpieler
(Verzeihen Sie mir, meine Umlaute fehlen.)

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Ich bin so gut gerundet, dass ich meine fehlenden Rand. :P
(Obwohl sie wurde nicht sagen, dass es wie in Deutsch.)

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I got them from virtual villagers 1

I made an interesting discovery about Tofo.
Tofo-Sant'Eleuterio and Tofo-villa are villages in Italy.

Lol, Isola is in the online dictionary, so is Virtual Villagers.

And Isola is italian for "island"
You probably all knew that already though

Anyone know what Shuka means?

Shúkà is the Maa word for sheets traditionally worn wrapped around the body, one over each shoulder, then a third over the top of them. These are typically red, though with some other colors (e.g. blue) and patterns (e.g. plaid.) Pink, even with flowers, is not shunned by warriors.

In VV2, Coen means "Supernatural Being that sounds like Thunder" and Bindi means "Little girl, or thorn".

I know cos I named 'em, lol. *grin*

Mamba is a type of dance.

Mamba Is Also A Snake * Shivers* The Africian Mamba... hmm something else..

Zen can also Be Chiense moola (Money!)

Mamba has lots of meanings, huh?

Cool! I didn't know most of the names meant anything (except the ones like City or Tuna) until now!

Anyone know what these mean:

Hika

Tepoto

Hoto

Onawa

Hebe - I think this one might possibly be a Greek, Roman or Norse mythological name, but I'm not sure.

Torak - I thought this was pretty cool when I saw this one. This was the name of the villian in one of the Ewok movies I believe.

Balun

Ipo

Daku

Toki

Lupa - I keep thinking of wolves when I see this one lol.

Pago

Hokou

Lapis - isn't this a gemstone or something?

Ponui

Sona

Amago

Mabu

Nanu- other than being Mork's saying, what does this mean?

Iona

Kappa

Laki

Elaku

Kumi

Kai

Pippa

Bixa

Atepa

Akio

Mem

Babaco

Nofo

Rapa

Coho

Weeko

I didn’t find them all, but here’s what I did find.
Tepoto is a coral island

Hoto is a Japanese dish

Onawa is a city in Iowa

Hebe, in Greek mythology, is the Goddess of youth

Toki is the Japanese name for the Crested Ibis; also bunny rabbit in Korean

Lupa - I keep thinking of wolves when I see this one lol.

Lapis - isn't this a gemstone or something?

Sona is a Hindi name, also a Hindi word that means ‘gold’

Iona is a small island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.

Kappa is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet.

Kai is a Polynesian and Hawaiian word/name meaning "big water", "the ocean", "the sea"; Makai means "towards big water".
In Welsh and Scandinavian cultures, Kai means "keeper of the keys; earth".
In Burmese, Kai means "strong", or "unbreakable".
In Japanese, Kai has several meanings, including "change" or "the action to correct", "mediation" or "concerning oneself with", as well as "sea" (the last definition possibly derived from Polynesian languages).
Kai in the Navajo language means "willow tree."

Mem (also spelled Meem or Mim) is the thirteenth letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet.

Rapa Nui is the native name of Easter Island.

There is a type of fish called the Coho salmon.

Here's what I found

Pippa- the name of a stitch pattern

Bixa- a food colorant

Atepa- something in Warcraft

Weeko- a Siouan expression meaning beautiful girl.

balun - a device for converting a balanced line into an unbalanced line and vice versa

coho - fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes

kumi - rubber in finnish

babaco - mountain papaya

Akio: Bright boy in Japanese
Sona: Persian for Prayer
Lapis: Egyptian for Gem
Onawa: N. American for Awake
Ipo: Hawaiian for Darling
Toki: Japanese for Time Of Opportunity
Iona: Purple Jewel in Greek
Kumi: Japanese for Braid
Pippa: Lover Of Horses in... English? If you say so.
And that's all I could find. Hope it helps. XD

It means beautiful girl, yet the males in VV2 get named Weeko LOL!

we know that kissa is finnish for cat, i just found
popoki is hawaiin for cat.

Also Hika is polynesian for Daughter.

And Daku is Aboriginal for "Sand."

I found a name that I think would fit in with the other villager names.

Shiva ~ meaning Beauty. It's a female name, of course.
I think, in my next tribe (which I'll be writing about), I'm going to use some of these names I'm discovering.

Ponui is a Maori word & name meaning "South Wind".

Zen is japanese buddhism!

Maui was a mythological Maori hero
Kauri is a tree native to New Zealand
Kupe was the first to person to reach New Zealand (In Maori Mythology)

Kai is Maori for food



Sorry about the multiple posts!

Anyone know what Waka and Laka mean?

Anybody know what Kei means, or Lala, or Kazua, or Piku, or Tutuni

Here are some in my VV1

Papu- Catalan Myth/Legend.

Aki- Japanese/Finnish/Nigerian first name... Aki also Japanese Autumn.

Iniko- It sounds Japanese; it probably is Japanese... My friends little brother is names Iniko Matzuzaka.

Seven- Duh

Meka-Sega Master system emulater. It emulates SG-1000, SC-3000, SF-7000, Sega Mark III, Sega Game Gear, ColecoVision and Othello Multivision. It also has support for Zipped ROM Images too.

Mika-Lebanese-born singer-songwriter based in London
FC Mika is also an Armenian football team.
Also there is Mika Stadium.

Aponi- A place in Arizona

Azizi-Persian surname... I believe, and a man who represented Iran at 1996 Asian cup. (was it Khodad Azizi? Or Khodadad?)

Kenan- in the Hebrew Bible, my friend told me and mentioned him. He is in Like 3:36, 37)

Kato- It means Add and Increase, Japanese. It is also a surname.

Elan- I know 14 people with the name Elan. I think it is an American and European first name (not so sure about this one.
I know a ton of Alan's too.

That is all I'm posting for now. Buh Bye!

I might get out of bed and post a few more.

Didn't one of the muppets always say "Waka Waka"? LOL

Waka is poetry written in Japanese.

All I could find on laka is that its an acronym. Same for Kei and Lala. Couldn't find Kazua or Piku or Tutuni.

I found some of the ones I asked about:

Torak is the name of the dragon god of Angarak in the Belgariad series. Anyone ever heard of this series? Is it a book series or comic book, show, etc. I'm not 100% sure anymore if the villian on that Ewok movie was named Torak. I'll have to watch the movie again to find out for sure. It may be that I'm getting him confused with Hordak (spelling may not be right) which was the main villian on the She-ra cartoon (for those who don't know, She-ra was He-man's twin sister). Hordak and the villian from the Ewok movie kind of look alike anyway LOL... except for the fact that Hordak was a cartoon and the other was a guy in a suit/makeup LOL.

Mabu has something to do with Martial Arts. It's some kind of stance or something.

Laki was on the original list - that's the name of a volcano in Iceland. I don't know about Laka.

I was going to comment about Torak from the Belgariad, too - you beat me to it!

My favorite villager name is still Ahi - yellowfin tuna (mmm...ahi sushi....)

Tofu=soy bean curd
Top=children's toy (or opposite of bottom)
Yap= to chatter or yelp

Oh,Aziza is a brand of cheap make-up. LOL

J'etudie francais (can't find the thingy to put on the c)

I don't think Hebe is Greek, and I looked at every greek mythology book in my school library.

Isn't Lala a telletubby? Oh god, that brings nightmares!

Nice!
The ç does exist only on the French keyboard, as é è ù à ê ë ô ...

(it's: "J'étudie le français" but it's really good!)

I'm on April break now, and I barely had French on Friday, but merci beaucoup!

You can actually put the c cedille (ç) by pressing Alt with 135 using the number pad on the right of your keyboard (at least if you have a PC, not sure how to do it with a Mac) Keep in mind though, that if you tried to type it in here, it will show up weird in the preview post section but looks fine when you submit the post. Oh, and I only know this because j'étudie le français et maintenant, j'enseigne le français.

And in response to the question about Hebe being from the Greek... it is part of the Greek mythology. You can find a short summary of it HERE .

Merçi, Houjun! Ma prof de français makes her celdille like that!

I believe you are looking for "ç"

Oui.

wow. this is an interesting forum. its fun to know what the names mean

I agree, it is. Thanks Mocha, now I have less nightmares!

Hebe is the Greek goddess of youth. I have a list of all the gods and goddesses in mythology (well not ALL of them, but a bunch of them lol). My brother has this book called the book of names or something to that effect. It's got the names of mythological characters, literature related characters, etc. That's what I got the list of gods and goddesses from. Well, some of them. Others were in the dictionary we have LOL.

By the way, if anyone wants the lists I have (in order to have names for your villagers if you don't like the ones they are given by the game), let me know. I'm not sure how to attach them to a post, but I'm sure I could probably figure it out LOL. I have the Gods and Goddesses list and a list of the names of Muses.

Also, here's a tip that I've found kind of useful at times: If you don't like the name of a villager given by the game, try it backwards. It works with some names (definitely not all names lol). For example, Niles backwards is Selin.

Pana is nickname for friend in spanish. i noticed it because it seems to be my dad's favorite word

On a Mac, simple press "Option+c" and then press "c". It will easily create the ç character.

La La- The name of one of the Teletubbies
Lapis-Gemstone

Amaca(found in the VV3 screenshots) is italian for hammock.
Aika means date in finnish
Papago is a type of indian tribe or something

Amaca is spanish for hammock, also I think

From VV3:
Waikiki= island
Bikini= island or the bathing suit named for it
Bora= language spoken in Peru, Brazil, and Colombia; the people who speak it; or a wind in Adriatic, Greece, Russia and Turkey; or may be a reference to the island Bora Bora.

I ound this funny. Kulo is a name in VV3 means a sort of slang word in spanish that means 'butt'.

Is it wrong that I often change my villagers names when they are born?

No it is not wrong as long as you enjoy doing it

Nope, its up to you. I love changing villagers names. I feel that it makes them more special and unique.

Also:
Swahili - a tanzanian language and an inhabitant of coastal eastern Africa

Toto - The default scratch file name among French-speaking programmers

Oro - gold in spanish and italian

Salote - the queen of Tonga

Kalau - "if" in indonesian

If you want to know what any more names mean, I would be happy to research them for you.

According to the Wikipedia, SupernaturalJem is right! In Greek mythology, Hebe was the goddess of youth. The name Hebe comes from the Greek word meaning "youth" or "prime of life". Hebe was the cupbearer for the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, serving their nectar and ambrosia, until she married Herakles (Roman equivalent: Hercules).

Hebe: Greek goddess of youth.

Oh, okay... Just never saw it in the books I read.

That means next time I get a boy named Weeko he is getting a new name!
LOL
I love this topic by the way. :-)

I might be wrong, but I think Soda (a common VV2 name) is a word for soft drink.

Pippa is also the diminuitive of Philippa. (lover of horses)

Bixa is derived from the Nahuatl word for shrub, and is a genus of plants. It is not a last name or surname, as far as I can tell. The closest is 'Bax,' a variant of Baxter, which means "Baker".

Atepa is apparently a Choctaw name meaning 'wigwam'. (?!?) A wigwam is a domed, single-room dwelling used by some Native American tribes. Here's a picture of one.

Weeka is something that I personally can't easily find. Ah well.

Soda may come from the name of a mineral, or alternately, a plant that when burned, leaves soda (the mineral) in its ashes. (Sodanum, in latin)

Swahili is a boy's name of Arabic origin, and means "Coast people".

Toto is a name of Swahili origin (weird) meaning "Little one."

Oro, as mentioned, is a spanish name meaning 'gold'. (Some sources list this as 'golden'.)

Salote, is surprisingly, a Germanic name, meaning "Free man."

Kalau is apparantly is variant of Kalu or Kaalu, and is a Hindu name meaning "Father of Nanak," who is the founder of the Sikh religion.

I would have posted here earlier, but was too lazy to look this stuff up. I'm also too lazy to write down names, so I'm just further investigating what I find here.

dada=what babys call daddy
or am i wrong?

1) Any of various forms of sodium carbonate.
2) Chemically combined sodium.

See carbonated water.

Chiefly Northeastern U.S., Eastern Missouri, & Southwestern Illinois. See soft drink. See Regional Note at tonic.

A refreshment made from carbonated water, ice cream, and usually a flavoring.

Games. The card turned face up at the beginning of faro.

[Middle English sode, soda, saltwort, soda, from Old Italian soda, perhaps from Arabic suwayd, soda, soda-plant or suwayda, type of saltwort.]

I just got a new little girl...Wewe

I don't know if it's been posted about, but Aponi (which I've seen in VV1, I think) is a Native American name that means Butterfly.

I've gotten Waikiki, which is a place; Pinot, which is a type of wine; Panini, which is a type of food; Wasabi, which is that green paste you eat with sushi; and Kenya, which is a country.