Entry № 7625 · Greenlandic origin

Nuna Nuna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NOO-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greenlandic
Meaning
"Land, earth"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Inuit)

A name that means "land, earth".

Nuna is the Greenlandic Inuit word for "land" or "earth" — the same root as Nunavut ("our land") in northern Canada.

Nuna is rising in Greenland and Inuit communities.

Land. The Greenlandic word, used as a name.

The name in its native script.

Nuna
Transliteration
Nuna
Pronunciation
/ ˈnuː.nə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Nuna stands.

Nuna does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Nunas before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Nuna
Common in Inuit fiction.

Names connected to Nuna.

The number behind Nuna.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nuna reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.