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Ntukai

Maasai · First name · unisex · birth circumstance

Given to a child born during the rainy season.

Source: Maasai naming tradition, cross-referenced across Kenyan Magazine's Maasai-names feature and lughayangu.com's Maa name dictionary

Other Maasai first names

Maa for "the tall one".

Maa for "the polite one".

Given to a child born during a thunderstorm.

Often glossed as "the blessed one" in Maa. We have found this only in online name lists, not in a dictionary or a study of Maasai names.

Maa for "the wise one".

Given to a child born during a drought.

Given to a child born in the early morning.

Given to a child born in the evening.

Maa for "the sweet one".

Maa for "the lucky one".

Maa for "the peaceful one" — one of the best-known and most widely used Maasai women's names.

Maa for "the fortunate one" or "she who brings luck", a common and well-loved Maasai women's name.

Maa for "the joyous one".

Maa for "the pure one" or "the clean one".

More birth circumstance names, from other cultures

From aba ("has come") + bio ("again"): "has come again." Given to a child born after an older sibling died, understood as that child returned.

Nyamekye · Akan

From Nyame ("God") + kyɛ ("to give, a gift"): "gift from God." Given to a child born after a long wait or prolonged childlessness.

Badara · Fulani

Traditionally given for being born under a full moon; associated with brightness and auspiciousness.

Given to a child whose mother died.

Given to a child whose father died before the naming ceremony. The name is explained as "did not meet the father to receive joy".

A child born immediately after twins.

Namasiku · Lozi

Lozi for "born at night".

Boonayyaa · Oromo

Given for a birth during the dry season.

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