I need to know my Native American name!!!?

Question:Hi Everyone,
I need to know my Native American name!!! It is for a school project. My name is Mary and the meaning is bitter.....If someone could please help me out I would really appreciate it. Thanks for those of ya'all who help me!!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hi Everyone,
I need to know my Native American name!!! It is for a school project. My name is Mary and the meaning is bitter.....If someone could please help me out I would really appreciate it. Thanks for those of ya'all who help me!!

Got a couple of problems here. Start with your name. "Mary" is an anglicised version of the Judeo-Aramaic name ???? which is transliterated as Maryam or Miriam. It's hebrew translation loosely is excellence. Don't know where the definition "bitter" came from.

But if your teacher really asked what your "native american" name is, well, don't know what to say about that other than your teacher doesn't have a clue.

Like someone wrote earlier, what would be your Asian name? Or European Name? Or Mid-Eastern Name? Or African Name? Each of those areas and countless languages and dialects.

Same for "native americans". Even within a nation, there are multiple languages and dialects. So I guess you could pick ONE native american language (if it were European, would you pick Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, German, Polish, etc., etc.?) and one particular dialect in that language and see if you can find a word that would mean "excellence". But that doesn't mean it is a name. Sounds like your teacher doesn't have a clue (or you didn't understand what the teacher was asking).

A "Native American" name is for native americans and is given by their native american parents at birth. If you're not native american, any name that you get is faked and irrelevant.

If you're looking for a literal translation of "bitter" - you'll ahve to pick the language you want it in. There are dozens of Native American languages.

Sorry...but better you find out now than get gypped later, eh

if you are Cherokee it would be mali which means Mary.

"wished for child".

Marc G is right---saying "Native American name" is a little like saying I want an "Oriental" name. There's no such thing. The indigenous peoples of North America number in the hundreds and they each have their own language. It would make more sense if you checked out the culture and language of the indigenous people who lived in your area prior to the Euroamerican invasion.

In Ojibwe, the only Native American language I am familiar with, "bitter" is wiisagaagamin. But no Ojibwe parent would ever give her child that as a name. "Sweet" would be better: wiishkobaagamin.

Mary/Marie is a very common name among the Ojibwe, thanks to Christian missionaries. So you could say that you already have a "Native American" name. But your teacher is imparting some very questionable lessons here.