Amaru Amaru — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Amaru is from the Quechua-Aymara amaru — serpent (foundational Andean cosmological creature). A modern American baby name in the broader Andean Indigenous heritage aesthetic. Amaru is one of the foundational Quechua-Aymara unisex names — central to traditional Inca + Andean Indigenous heritage. The foundational Quechua amaru refers to the foundational Amaru (Inca cosmological serpent + symbol of foundational Hurin/underworld realm). Foundational figure of foundational Túpac Amaru I (1545-1572) — foundational last Sapa Inca of the Neo-Inca Vilcabamba State + executed by Spanish viceroy Francisco de Toledo + foundational Túpac Amaru II (José Gabriel Condorcanqui) (1738-1781) — foundational 18th-c. Andean leader of foundational largest Indigenous rebellion against Spanish colonialism (foundational Rebelión de Túpac Amaru II 1780-1783) — central to foundational pan-Andean anti-colonial heritage.

Featured throughout Andean heritage.