Pocahontas name - Meaning of Pocahontas

Pocahontas name - Meaning of Pocahontas

Gender

Feminine

Lucky Number

4

Usage

History, Native American, Algonquin

Pronounced

poh-kah-HAWN-tahs

Pocahontas Meaning

Means "she is playful" in Algonquin. This was the name of a young Algonquin woman, daughter of a powerful chief, who married a white colonist. Pocahontas originates in Native American languages and means "the frisky one". This was the name of a legendary Virginia Indian, the daughter of Chief Powhatan, who married a white colonist. Nowadays, Pocahontas is the name of numerous places in the United States. As a feminine given name it was popularized by the 1995 Disney movie of the same name.