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The Tigrinya-speaking Tigray people of highland Eritrea and northern Ethiopia trace their heritage to the ancient Kingdom of Aksum, one of the ancient world’s major powers, which adopted Christianity as its state religion in the 4th century AD. Today around 4.9 million Tigrinya speakers live roughly evenly split between Eritrea and Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

First names (9)

descriptive name

Tigrinya for "light".

Tigrinya for "victory".

Tigrinya for "eternal happiness".

Usually glossed as "wealthy" in Tigrinya. We have not found a dictionary or a study of Tigrinya names that confirms it or explains how the name is formed.

A Ge'ez-origin name meaning "jasmine flower", widely used among Tigrinya speakers.

Tigrinya for "goodness, virtue, grace".

Ge'ez for "plant" — shared with Amharic (both draw on the same liturgical language) but independently well attested as a Tigrinya given name.

Tigrinya for "my sun".

sentence name

From Ghebre/Gebre ("servant of") + Mariam (Mary): "servant of Mary" — one of the most productive naming patterns in Tigrinya, pairing Gebre- with a saint's name.

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