Entry № 479 · Inuit origin

Aluki Aluki — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-LOO-kee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Inuit
Meaning
"Gentle one"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Inuit)

A name that means "gentle one".

Aluki is an Inuit name meaning "gentle one." Used in the Inuktitut-speaking Arctic communities of northern Canada.

Aluki Kotierk is the contemporary President of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., the Inuit organization representing Nunavummiut.

Gentle one. The Inuit Arctic name.

The name in its native script.

Aluki
Transliteration
Aluki
Pronunciation
/ əˈluː.ki /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aluki stands.

Aluki 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.

Alukis before her.

Real people
Aluki Kotierk
President of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.
In fiction
Aluki
Common in Inuit literature.

Names connected to Aluki.

The number behind Aluki.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aluki reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.