Amazigh names

MEANING OF AMAZIGHS (MEN / WOMEN) FIRST NAMES

LIST OF MEN'S FIRST NAMES AMAZIGH or rather IMAZIGHEN which is the plural of the word AMAZIGH. The word "AMAZIGH" is the original term but it is better known as BERBER, There are very beautiful names Berberes or AMAZIGH. The Imazighen or Berbers are a group of indigenous people from North Africa. the original word AMAZIGH would like to say "free man", it is the singular of IMAZIGHEN

The Imazighens formerly occupied a large territory that ran from the west of the Nile Valley to the Atlantic and the whole of the Sahara and founded powerful tribal-like kingdoms there. The most famous of the Berber kingdoms was called Numidia

Today's Berber-speaking areas are spread over several countries such as Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.

Formerly, the alphabet AMAZIGH (BERBER) was the tifinagh, The Amazigh alphabet is still used by the Tuaregs. I am currently creating a new site dedicated to Muslim names of origin, Arabic, Persian, Amazigh etc .....

The arrival of a child is a very special moment for a family. The being to come will be unique ... the choice of the name is therefore of great importance. You can choose it according to the names you already know, according to suggestions from the family, according to your origins ... But there is surely a little of all that. To help you make the right choice, we offer a non-exhaustive list of Berber first names for boys. You will find names in fashion, other old or rather modern, others referring to great personalities who have marked the history of Algeria and the Maghreb in general. Here is also a link listing many names of boys of Arab or Muslim origin.

The first name Aylimas was ranked among the female first names by the Algerian administration, while it is the great-grandfather of Massinissa, who died in -310 BC. AD ..

The High Commission for Amazighness (HCA) handed over a list of nearly 1,000 first names to the Algerian Ministry of the Interior.

The free choice of the first name by the parents is still not allowed in Algeria. Hundreds of first names from the Algerian cultural and historical histories are still considered as not conforming to the Arab-Muslim ideology or too subversive.

Example:

Abhau: The man with blond hair

Adal: Great tiger (Touareg)

Adan / Adane: Man with intelligence and beauty

Aderfi: The freedman

Adhughmas: The one who smiles (first name Touareg)

Adergazuz: First name Touareg

Aderbal - Adherbal: Adherbal is a Punico-Amazigh given name of Adher and Baal (Phoenician god). Baal is often attached to another name such as in Hasdrubal, Hannibal, Hiemsal, etc. Adherbaal would mean in this case "the Submissive to God". In this sense, Baal has the same meaning and the same usage as Allah among Muslims found in Abdallah, etc. Berber king (118 - 112). Baal means lord in ancient Arabic who has the same origin as Phoenician since two Semitic languages ​​are even called Baal husband.

Since the first list of imazighen first names published in 1980, we regularly continue its reproduction with a constant enrichment. This list thus repeats this work, increased by more than 300 first names with, as far as possible, and when it is necessary, a brief explanation on certain characters and given names, and if we do not give definitions to certain first names is that they are numerous to be significant in themselves.