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Caribbean Island Indigenous Names

This document lists indigenous names for various Caribbean islands along with their origins and meanings. It shows that many island names came from the Arawak, Kalinago, and Taino people who originally inhabited the islands. The names often describe geographic features of the islands like their shapes, plants, animals, or resources found there.

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Caribbean Island Indigenous Names

This document lists indigenous names for various Caribbean islands along with their origins and meanings. It shows that many island names came from the Arawak, Kalinago, and Taino people who originally inhabited the islands. The names often describe geographic features of the islands like their shapes, plants, animals, or resources found there.

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Present Island Name Indigenous Name Origin Meaning

Anguilla Malliouhana Arawak Arrow-Shaped Sea Serpent


Soualiga
St. Martin Arawak Land of Salt
Oualichi
St. Barths Ouanalao Arawak Unknown
Siba
Saba Arawak The Rock
Amonhana

St. Eustatius Aloi Arawak Cashew Tree


Saint Croix Ay Ay Taino The River
Saint Kitts Liamuiga Kalinago Fertile Land
Nevis Oualie Kalinago Land of Beautiful Water
Montserrat Alliouagana Kalinago Land of Prickly Bush
Land of the herons (broader
Barbuda Wa'omoni Kalinago
interpretation:land of the large birds)
Antigua Waladli Kalinago Land of Fish Oil
Redonda Ocananmanrou Kalinago Unknown
Guadeloupe Karukera Kalinago Island of Beautiful Waters
Aichi Kalinago
Marie Galante Unknown
Touloukaera Arawak

Dominica Wai'tukubuli Kalinago Tall is Her Body


Martinique Madinina Kalinago Land of Flowers
St. Lucia Hewanorra Kalinago Land of the Iguana
Saint Vincent Hairoun Kalinago Land of the Blessed
Bequia Becouya Kalinago Island of the Clouds
Canouan Cannouan Kalinago Island of Turtles
Carriacou Kayryouacou Kalinago Island of Reefs
Grenada Camerhogne Kalinago / Galibi? Conception Island
Barbados Ichirouganaim Arawak Red land/island with white teeth (reefs)
Tobago Tobago Kalinago / Galibi? Tobacco Pipe
Kairi
Trinidad Kalinago Land of the Hummingbird
Lele
Rough earth and Mother of all lands
Hispaniola Ayiti and Kiskeya Taino
respectively
Cuba Cobao Taino Large island or place
Puerto Rico Borikén Taino Land of the Valiant and Noble Lord
Land of Wood and Water or the Land of
Jamaica Xaymaca Taino
Springs

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