Entry № 7670 · Quechua origin

Ocllo Ocllo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OH-kyo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Quechua
Meaning
"Mother of the Inca civilization (Mama Ocllo)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Quechua)

A name that means "mother of the inca civilization (mama ocllo)".

Ocllo is from the Quechua word for "pure, sacred." Mama Ocllo was the legendary foundress of the Inca civilization in Andean tradition — sister-wife of Manco Cápac, the first Sapa Inca. Together they emerged from Lake Titicaca to found the city of Cusco and the Inca civilization — she taught the Andean women to spin, weave, and farm.

Featured in Garcilaso de la Vega's Royal Commentaries of the Incas (1609).

Mother of the Inca. Emerged from Lake Titicaca to found Cusco with Manco Cápac.

The name in its native script.

Mama Ocllo
Transliteration
Mama Ocllo
Pronunciation
/ ˈoʊ.kjoʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ocllo stands.

Ocllo 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.

Ocllos before her.

Real people
Mama Ocllo
Inca foundress.
In fiction
Ocllo
Garcilaso's Royal Commentaries.
1609

Names connected to Ocllo.

The number behind Ocllo.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ocllo reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.