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Popularity of the Baby Name Pipaluk

Posts that Mention the Name Pipaluk

The Name Navarana

Peter & Navarana, 1910s

I mentioned the name Navarana in the post on Greenlandic names the other day. The name means “the one that alternates between different parties” and can be traced back to the proto-Eskimo root *naverar, “to exchange,” “to trade.”

According to The Language Secretariat of Greenland, the name came from Inuit mythology. Navarana, the main character in the story, essentially “alternated between two different tribes and ended up creating disunity.” In Greenland’s version of the tale, the two tribes were the Greenlanders and the Norsemen.

One real-life Navarana was the first wife of Danish polar explorer Peter Freuchen, who lived for many years in northern Greenland. She was a Greenlandic Inuit woman originally known as Mequpaluk (meaning “little feather”). Around the time they were married in 1911, she changed her name to Navarana — a fitting choice, given her new dual-tribe status. The couple had two children, a boy named Mequsaq (“featherlike”) and a girl named Pipaluk (“little possession”), before Navarana died of the flu in 1921.


Popular Baby Names in Greenland




Top Baby Names in Greenland, 1960s

1. Ane
2. Marie
3. Karen
4. Sofie
5. Johanne
6. Kristine
7. Margrethe
8. Dorthe
9. Else
10. Anna
1. Hans
2. Jens
3. Karl
4. Lars
5. Peter
6. Niels
7. Ole
8. Kristian
9. Jørgen
10. Johan

Top Baby Names in Greenland, 1970s

1. Ane
2. Karen
3. Marie
4. Dorthe
5. Johanne
6. Mette
7. Naja*
8. Susanne
9. Anna
10. Sofie
1. Hans
2. Karl
3. Jens
4. Peter
5. Lars
6. Niels
7. Thomas
8. Jakob
9. Martin
10. Knud


Top Baby Names in Greenland, 1980s

1. Ane
2. Johanne
3. Marie
4. Karen
5. Paninnguaq*
6. Sofie
7. Louise
8. Anna
9. Nivi*
10. Naja
1. Hans
2. Karl
3. Jens
4. Malik*
5. Peter
6. Lars
7. Kristian
8. Ole
9. Thomas
10. Niels


Top Baby Names in Greenland, 1990s

1. Paninnguaq
2. Ane
3. Nivi
4. Naja
5. Ivalu*
6. Pipaluk*
7. Sofie
8. Sara
9. Marie
10. Camilla
1. Malik
2. Hans
3. Karl
4. Jens
5. Peter
6. Kristian
7. Lars
8. Aputsiaq*
9. Inunnguaq*
10. Nuka*


Top Baby Names in Greenland, 2000s (first decade)

1. Ivaana*
2. Pipaluk
3. Nivi
4. Paninnguaq
5. Ivalu
6. Naasunnguaq*
7. Julie
8. Ane
9. Isabella
10. Kimmernaq*
1. Malik
2. Aputsiaq
3. Minik*
4. Hans
5. Inunnguaq
6. Kristian
7. Nuka
8. Salik*
9. Peter
10. Inuk* and Ivik* (tied)





