Given name
Pocahontas
“filled with joy”
Pocahontas is used as a given name. One Native American interpretation is “filled with joy.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Native American interpretation is “filled with joy.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Native American.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1897. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pocahontas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 217
- 0 boys · 217 girls
- Most popular year
- 1925
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 1925. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 102 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Pocahontas’s family of names
Pocahontas has a related form in Pocahantas. Pocahontas has a related form in Pocohontas. Pocahontas has a related form in Pokahantas.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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