American Girl Names

Upbeat Native American name with a wonderful meaning.

Soft and rhythmic addition to the collection of names that mean butterfly.

This traditional Cherokee name could easily be borne by a modern baby girl with connections to the tribe.

Traditional Cherokee choice that could work for a daughter born on a rainy day.

Name used for girls in the Choctaw tribe of Mississippi and Oklahoma.

A feminine name in Choctaw culture.

Palin has suddenly become a hot new surname-name given usually to girls. The inspiration can only be former Alaska governor Sarah, though the name Palin is her husband's -- her original surname is Heath. Palin herself is no stranger to the adventurous baby name, as the mother of daughters Bristol, Piper, and Willow, and sons Track and Trig.

Pretty and unusual bird-related name.

Lovely and peaceful Cherokee option for a baby girl.

Cimarron is a Great Plains city and river name used by Edna Ferber as the title of a popular novel. The Cimarron people of Panama were previously enslaved Africans who had escaped from their Spanish masters and lived together in defiance of colonial rule. In the 1570s, they allied with Francis Drake of England to defeat the Spanish conquest.

An attractive Cherokee name — literally — with a bouncy rhythm.

Though its meaning has been lost to time, Nazshoni is a beautiful Cherokee option for a daughter.

Your baby won't be a baby forever, but if you call her Usdi, she actually can.

Traditional Cherokee choice for a winter-born daughter.

For the doe-eyed daughter.

A wearable Cherokee option for a daughter.

Derived from the Cherokee word ayuhwasi, referring to a savanna or meadow.

Cherokee is the name of a Native American tribe, the largest in the United States stretching from North Carolina through Oklahoma. The meaning of the word Cherokee is uncertain: It may be Choctaw for "those who live in the mountains" or "those who live in the cave country" or it may be an Anglicization of the word the Cherokee use to refer to themselves, Tsalagi. The name was given to 19 baby girls in the U.S. in 2013 but was not recorded on the boys' roster, though we'd consider it a gender neutral name.

Cool Cherokee color name.

Sieves were associated with women in traditional Cherokee culture. They symbolized regeneration and were considered to be vessels that "held the meal of life."