Blackfoot Name Generator

Historical and family names of the Blackfoot Confederacy

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Browse 500 Blackfoot names for research, history projects and fiction: leaders in the Blackfoot language with the recorded English rendering, such as Isapo-Muxika (Crowfoot) and Mekaisto (Red Crow), historical names such as Heavy Runner and Running Eagle, and family names such as Many Guns, Weasel Head and Tailfeathers.

About Blackfoot names

The Blackfoot Confederacy is four nations: the Siksika, the Kainai or Blood and the Piikani in Alberta, and the Blackfeet Nation in Montana. They share the Blackfoot language, which belongs to the Algonquian family, and call themselves Niitsitapi.

A Blackfoot name is not chosen from a list. It is given in ceremony, often by an elder, and a name can be transferred from one person to another, so a person may carry several in a lifetime. The Siksika chief known in English as Crowfoot was called Shot Close as a child and Bear Ghost as a young man before he took the name Isapo-Muxika. The list gives a Blackfoot form only together with the English rendering that is on record, and it keeps old spellings as they were written, such as Chapo-Mexico for Crowfoot in Treaty 7 of 1877 and the painter George Catlin's Stu-mick-o-súcks of 1832.

Family names came with the agency and treaty rolls, when a father's name was written down as a surname: Many Guns, Weasel Head, Calf Robe, Standing Alone. In Montana many are written as one word, as in Bullshoe and Heavyrunner. The page is meant for research, history projects and fiction. It is not a way to take a Blackfoot name, which only the people themselves can give.

How to choose Blackfoot names

  • Keep a Blackfoot form and its English rendering together, as in Peenaquim (Seen From Afar). Do not build new Blackfoot names by translating English words one by one.
  • Match the name to the nation. Crowfoot, Old Sun and Running Rabbit were Siksika, Red Crow and Seen From Afar were Kainai, and Mountain Chief, Heavy Runner and White Calf were Piegan leaders in Montana.
  • Spellings such as Matose-Apiw and Pe-tóh-pee-kiss were written by treaty clerks and travelers who did not speak Blackfoot. Use them for a document of the 1800s, and a modern spelling such as Mi'kai'sto for anything set today.
  • Family names are written both as separate words and as one word, as in Crow Shoe and Yellowhorn. Pick one form for a character and keep it.
  • For a real person, a place or a ceremony, go to the nations themselves. The Siksika, Kainai, Piikani and Blackfeet nations each have language and culture programs.

Frequently asked questions

Are these real Blackfoot names?

The historical names are those of recorded Blackfoot people, among them Isapo-Muxika (Crowfoot), Mekaisto (Red Crow), Heavy Runner and Julia Wades in the Water, and the family names are carried by families of the four nations. The list has not been checked by Blackfoot speakers or by any of the nations, so confirm a spelling in a published source before you rely on it. Full names such as Wilfred Crow Shoe pair a common first name with a Blackfoot family name, so they are combinations and may match a real person only by chance.

Can I use this to find my own Blackfoot name?

No. Blackfoot names are given and transferred in ceremony by people who have the right to give them. The list is for research, history projects and fiction, and a random generator cannot stand in for that.

Why does Crowfoot appear under three spellings?

Blackfoot had no standard spelling in the 1800s, so each writer put down what he heard. Crowfoot is Chapo-Mexico in the text of Treaty 7, Isapo-Muxika in older history books and Issapoomahksika in a modern spelling. The list keeps each recorded spelling with the same English rendering, so you can tell that they are one name.

Is it Blackfoot or Blackfeet?

Both are in use. Blackfoot is the usual word in Canada and for the language, and it translates Siksika, the name of one of the four nations. Blackfeet is the official name of the nation in Montana, the Blackfeet Nation, whose people are the southern Piikani.

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A: 32 names

  • Aatsista-Mahkan (Running Rabbit)
  • Ac ko mok ki (Old Swan)
  • Across the Mountain
  • Ada Small Eyes
  • After Buffalo
  • Agnes Small Face
  • Ah-kay-ee-pix-en (Woman Who Strikes Many)
  • Aimsback
  • Akak-Otos (Many Horses)
  • Akay-na-muka (Many Guns)
  • Akka-Kitcipimiw-Otas (Many Spotted Horses)
  • Akka-Makkoye (Many Swans)
  • Albert Black Rabbit
  • Alice Hind Man
  • Alma Healy
  • Almost a Dog
  • Alvin Panther Bone
  • Amanda Pard
  • Amber Kittson
  • Annie Yellow Face
  • Apaw-Stamix (Weasel Bull)
  • Apenako-Sapop (Morning Plume)
  • Api-kai-ees (Deerfoot)
  • Apikuni (Far-Off White Robe)
  • Arrowtop
  • Arthur Little Moustache
  • Astoxkomi (Shot Close)
  • Attistah-Macan (Running Rabbit)
  • Augare
  • Axkyahp-say-pi (Attacked Towards Home)
  • Aye-Stipis-Simat (Heavily Whipped)
  • Ayoungman

B: 45 names

  • Backfat
  • Bad Eagle
  • Bad Head
  • Bad Marriage
  • Bare Shin Bone
  • Bastien
  • Bear Bull
  • Bear Chief
  • Bear Ghost
  • Bear Hat
  • Bear Head
  • Bear Medicine
  • Ben Madplume
  • Bertha Day Rider
  • Big Beaver
  • Big Bull
  • Big Lake
  • Big Nose
  • Big Snake
  • Big Sorrel Horse
  • Big Springs
  • Big Swan

B, continued

  • Bird Rattler
  • Black Plume
  • Black Rabbit
  • Black Rider
  • Black Weasel
  • Blackfoot Old Woman
  • Blackwater
  • Born With a Tooth
  • Boss Ribs
  • Boy Chief
  • Brenda McMaster
  • Brings Down the Sun
  • Brown Weasel Woman
  • Bruised Head
  • Bull Backfat
  • Bull Calf
  • Bull Head
  • Bull Horn
  • Bull Plume
  • Bull Shields
  • Bullchild
  • Bullshoe
  • Button Chief

C: 37 names

  • Calf Boss Ribs
  • Calf Looking
  • Calf Rising in Sight
  • Calf Robe
  • Calf Shirt
  • Calf Tail
  • Captured the Gun Inside
  • Carol Sanderville
  • Cecil Little Bear
  • Cecile Cross Child
  • Chapo-Mexico (Crowfoot)
  • Charcoal
  • Charlene Solway
  • Charlie Cobell
  • Cheryl Racine
  • Chief Calf
  • Chief Moon
  • Chief Rabbit Runner
  • Clara First Rider
  • Clarence Old Person
  • Clayton Bremner
  • Cobell
  • Cody Connelly
  • Comes at Night
  • Conrad Ground
  • Crane Bear
  • Crazy Bull
  • Cree Medicine
  • Croff
  • Crop Eared Wolf
  • Crossguns
  • Crow Chief
  • Crow Eagle
  • Crow Shoe
  • Crowfoot
  • Crystal Knowlton
  • Curly Bear

D: 16 names

  • Dan Stillsmoking
  • Darlene Vielle
  • Darryl Kennerly
  • Day Chief
  • Deerfoot
  • Delia Doore
  • Dennis Monroe
  • DesRosier
  • Donna Croff
  • Doore
  • Dora Good Rider
  • Doreen Bastien
  • Duck Chief
  • Dustin Marceau
  • Dusty Bull
  • Dwayne McHugh

E: 19 names

  • Eagle Bear
  • Eagle Child
  • Eagle Plume
  • Eagle Ribs
  • Eagle Speaker
  • Eagle Tail Feathers
  • Edith Last Star
  • Edward Tailfeathers
  • Eeh-nís-kim (Crystal Stone)
  • Elk Hollering in the Water
  • Ella Cut Finger
  • Elmer Goodstriker
  • Elsie Scout
  • Emil Winnipeg
  • Emitah-Apiskinne (White Striped Dog)
  • Emma Yellow Sun
  • Esther New Breast
  • Eugene Long Time Sleeping
  • Eva Night Gun

F: 11 names

  • Fast Buffalo Horse
  • Fat Horse
  • Father of Many Children
  • Faye Frank
  • Fine Shield Woman
  • Florence First Charger
  • Floyd Sweet Grass
  • Four Bears
  • Frances Iron Shirt
  • Francis Medicine Crane
  • Frank Augare

G: 15 names

  • Garry Munro
  • Generous Woman
  • George Pepion
  • Georgina Blood
  • Gertrude No Runner
  • Gilbert Yellow Owl
  • Gives to the Sun
  • Gladstone
  • Gloria Wippert
  • Gobert
  • Good Eagle
  • Goodstriker
  • Gordon Big Snake
  • Grace Plaited Hair
  • Guardipee

H: 15 names

  • Harold Black Plume
  • Harriet Plume
  • Harry Aimsback
  • Hazel Young Pine
  • Healy
  • Heavy Breast
  • Heavy Head
  • Heavy Runner
  • Heavy Shield
  • Heavyrunner
  • Helen Brave Rock
  • Henry North Peigan
  • Hind Bull
  • Horace Three Persons
  • Howard Big Beaver

I: 13 names

  • Ida Sharp Adze
  • Imitaikoan (Little Dog)
  • In-ne-ó-cose (Buffalo's Child)
  • Irene Swims Under
  • Iron Breast
  • Iron Horn
  • Iron Shield
  • Irvine Shortman
  • Isabel Shouting
  • Isapo-Muxika (Crowfoot)
  • Issapoomahksika (Crowfoot)
  • Istowun-eh'pata (Packs a Knife)
  • Ivan Stimson

J: 8 names

  • James Salois
  • Jean Backfat
  • Jesse Spearson
  • Joe Provost
  • Josephine Iron Pipe
  • Joyce Juneau
  • Julia Wades in the Water
  • Juneau

K: 12 names

  • Kathleen Royal
  • Katie Cat Face
  • Kayla Wadsworth
  • Keith Twigg
  • Kennerly
  • Kenneth Bear Medicine
  • Kicking Woman
  • Kipp
  • Knowlton
  • Kyiah-sta-ah (Bear Ghost)
  • Kyiyo-siksinum (Black Bear)
  • Kyle Creighton

L: 29 names

  • Lame Bull
  • Lance Delaney
  • Lately Gone
  • Laura One Gun
  • Lawrence Yellow Kidney
  • Lazy Boy
  • Leans Over Butchering
  • Lena Cree Medicine
  • Leo Upham
  • Leonard Bird Rattler
  • Lillian Bear Hat
  • Linda Momberg
  • Little Bear
  • Little Bull
  • Little Chief
  • Little Dog
  • Little Gray Head
  • Little Moustache
  • Little Plume
  • Lloyd Weasel Fat
  • Lone Walker
  • Long Time Sleeping
  • Lorraine LaPlant
  • Lottie Buckskin
  • Louis Prairie Chicken
  • Louise Crane Bear
  • Low Horn
  • Lucy Rabbit Carrier
  • Lyle Shade

M: 55 names

  • Mabel Yellow Fly
  • Mad Wolf
  • Madplume
  • Maggie Right Hand
  • Makes Cold Weather
  • Makoye-Kin (Wolf Collar)
  • Makoyepuk (Wolf Child)
  • Makoyi-Opistoki (Crop Eared Wolf)
  • Manistokos (Father of Many Children)
  • Many Bears
  • Many Chief
  • Many Fingers
  • Many Grey Horses
  • Many Guns
  • Many Hides
  • Many Horses
  • Many Shots
  • Many Spotted Horses
  • Many Swans
  • Many Tail Feathers
  • Many Turning Robes
  • Margaret Crowfoot
  • Marie Trombley
  • Martha Yellowhorn
  • Marvin Standing Alone
  • Mary Eagle Plume
  • Maste-Pitah (Crow Eagle)

M, continued

  • Matapi-Komotziw (The Captive)
  • Matose-Apiw (Old Sun)
  • Maurice Turning Robe
  • Medicine Calf
  • Medicine Crane
  • Medicine Owl
  • Medicine Shield
  • Medicine Snake Woman
  • Medicine Weasel
  • Mekaisto (Red Crow)
  • Mekasto (Red Crow)
  • Melting Tallow
  • Melvin Comes at Night
  • Mi'kai'sto (Red Crow)
  • Middle Sitter
  • Mildred Blackwater
  • Minnie Bear Child
  • Mistaken Chief
  • Mix-ke-móte-skin-na (Iron Horn)
  • Molly Bullchild
  • Momberg
  • Monroe
  • Morning Bull
  • Morning Plume
  • Mountain Chief
  • Mountain Horse
  • Myron Soup
  • Myrtle Butterfly

N: 17 names

  • Natahki (Fine Shield Woman)
  • Natawista Iksana (Medicine Snake Woman)
  • Nathan Fox
  • Natosapi (Old Sun)
  • Natose-Onistors (Medicine Calf)
  • Natosin Nepe-e (Brings Down the Sun)
  • Nee-ti-nee (The Only Chief)
  • Nellie New Robe
  • Netah-Kitei-Pi-Mew (Only Spot)
  • New Chest
  • Ninastoko (Mountain Chief)
  • Nitoh Mahkwi (Lone Wolf)
  • No-okskatos (Three Bulls)
  • Nora Heavyrunner
  • Norman Makes Cold Weather
  • North Axe
  • North Peigan

O: 13 names

  • Oka
  • Old Person
  • Old Sun
  • Old Swan
  • Old Woman
  • Oldchief
  • Oliver Yellow Wings
  • One Spot
  • Onista'poka (White Calf)
  • Onistah-Pokah (White Calf)
  • Onistah-Sokaksin (Calf Shirt)
  • Otokomi (Yellow Fish)
  • Owen Knife

P: 23 names

  • Pakap-otokan (Bad Head)
  • Panther Bone
  • Pard
  • Patrick After Buffalo
  • Pauline Weatherwax
  • Pe-tóh-pee-kiss (Eagle's Ribs)
  • Pearl Arrowtop
  • Peenaquim (Seen From Afar)
  • Pepion
  • Percy Schildt
  • Pete Potts
  • Philip Small Legs
  • Pitah-Annes (Eagle Robe)
  • Pitah-Otocan (Eagle Head)
  • Pitah-Otsikin (Eagle Shoe)
  • Pitah-Pekis (Eagle Rib)
  • Pitamakan (Running Eagle)
  • Plain Eagle
  • Pokapiw-Otoian (Bad Head)
  • Potts
  • Prairie Chicken
  • Pretty Young Man
  • Provost

Q: 1 name

  • Quinton Axe

R: 27 names

  • Rabbit Carrier
  • Rachel Skunkcap
  • Racine
  • Rainy Chief
  • Ralph Black Rider
  • Raw Eater
  • Ray Kipp
  • Raymond Mountain Horse
  • Red Crow
  • Red Eagle
  • Red Gun
  • Red Old Man
  • Red Plume
  • Reevis
  • Rides at the Door
  • Rising Wolf
  • Rita DeRoche
  • Rodney Whitford
  • Rose Crossguns
  • Rosie Big Throat
  • Roy Oldchief
  • Running Eagle
  • Running Rabbit
  • Running Wolf
  • Runningcrane
  • Russell Ayoungman
  • Ruth Runningcrane

S: 42 names

  • Sakoye-Aotan (Heavy Shield)
  • Salois
  • Sam Bullshoe
  • Sanderville
  • Sarah Spoonhunter
  • Schildt
  • Seen From Afar
  • Shade
  • Shane Pemberton
  • Shayla Gilham
  • Shirley Flammond
  • Shortman
  • Shot Both Sides
  • Shouting
  • Si'k-okskitsis (Charcoal)
  • Sinopah (Kit Fox)
  • Sitting Eagle
  • Sitting White Buffalo
  • Siyeh (Mad Wolf)
  • Skunkcap
  • Small Legs

S, continued

  • Sotai-na (Rainy Chief)
  • Sotenah (Rainy Chief)
  • Spear Chief
  • Spoonhunter
  • Spotted Bear
  • Spotted Bull
  • Spotted Eagle
  • St. Goddard
  • Stabs by Mistake
  • Stamix-Osok (Bull Backfat)
  • Standing Alone
  • Stanley Across the Mountain
  • Stella Tatsey
  • Stillsmoking
  • Stokimatis (The Drum)
  • Strangling Wolf
  • Strikes With a Gun
  • Striped Wolf
  • Stu-mick-o-súcks (Buffalo Bull's Back Fat)
  • Susie Old Shoes
  • Sweet Grass

T: 23 names

  • Tail Feathers Coming Over the Hill
  • Tailfeathers
  • Takoye-Stamix (Fiend Bull)
  • Tanya Beebe
  • Tara Lukin
  • Tatsey
  • Tearing Lodge
  • Terry St. Goddard
  • The Boy
  • The Skunk
  • Theodore Melting Tallow
  • Theresa Guardipee
  • Three Bulls
  • Three Persons
  • Three Suns
  • Tom Gobert
  • Travis Devereaux
  • Trevor Grier
  • Turning Robe
  • Twigg
  • Two Bear Woman
  • Two Guns White Calf
  • Tyler Gervais

U: 1 name

  • Upham

V: 6 names

  • Verna Singer
  • Vernon Bare Shin Bone
  • Victor Bad Marriage
  • Victoria DesRosier
  • Vielle
  • Violet Gladstone

W: 30 names

  • Wades in the Water
  • Wallace Rides at the Door
  • Walter Spotted Bear
  • Water Chief
  • Wayne Reevis
  • Weasel Calf
  • Weasel Child
  • Weasel Fat
  • Weasel Head
  • Weasel Moccasin
  • Weasel Tail
  • Weatherwax
  • Wesley Breaker
  • White Calf
  • White Cow
  • White Grass
  • White Man Left
  • White Pup
  • White Quills
  • Wilfred Crow Shoe
  • Wilma Henault
  • Winnie Oka
  • Wippert
  • Wolf Calf
  • Wolf Child
  • Wolf Collar
  • Wolf Leg
  • Wolf Plume
  • Wolf Tail
  • Wún-nes-tou (White Buffalo)

Y: 9 names

  • Yellow Fly
  • Yellow Kidney
  • Yellow Old Woman
  • Yellow Owl
  • Yellow Wings
  • Yellow Wolf
  • Yellowhorn
  • Young Running Crane
  • Yvonne Magee

Z: 1 name

  • Zoatze-Tapitapiw (Setting on an Eagle Tail)