name
Altan
AHL-tahn
ˈɑltɑnListen
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Syllable breakdown
Altan
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Evenki (Russia/Siberia)
- Meaning
- an Evenki and broader Tungusic name meaning golden or of gold; reflecting the prestige of gold as a marker of value, purity, and celestial connection across Siberian and Central Asian cultures; among the Evenki reindeer herders of the Evenk Autonomous Okrug, Altan is a name given to sons of high expectation, evoking the colour of autumn larch forests that cloak the taiga in gold each September and the glinting of rivers in which ancestral spirits are believed to dwell
- Gender
- male
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