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
Grammatical form

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

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.