Pitseolak

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Girl or boy · Inuktitut

Pitseolak

Say it: PIT-see-oh-lak

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Meaning

Inuktitut for the sea pigeon (black guillemot), as Pitseolak Ashoona herself explained.

Likelythe main view, with some doubt.

Inuit names are traditionally passed on from a person who has died and are not tied to gender.

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

Inuit

The family of the name

Other spellings: Pitsiulaaq

Famous bearers

Pitseolak Ashoona, Inuit graphic artist
Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer

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Where this comes from

Published resources of the nation concerned

Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.

Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.