Boy · Quechua
Atahualpa
Say it: ah-tah-WAHL-pah
Meaning
Name of the Inca ruler captured by Pizarro; its Quechua etymology is not settled.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Occasionally given in Ecuador and Peru as a patriotic name; the Argentine folk singer Atahualpa Yupanqui took it as a stage name.
Its wave through time
No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Atahuallpa
Famous bearers
- Atahualpa, Inca ruler (died 1533)
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Where this comes from
- Published resources of the nation concerned
- Colonial records of the Americas
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