Meaning and Origin
What does the name Alabama mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
Origin and Meaning of Alabama
User Submitted Origins
Native American
78%
English
11%
American
11%
User Submitted Meanings
- A user from the United Kingdom says the name Alabama means "Thicket clearing and goddess of life".
International Interest
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Other Dictionary Sources
- The Muskhogean language of the Alabama
- A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
- A river in Alabama formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers near Montgomery; flows southwestward to become a tributary of the Mobile River
- A member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in what is now the state of Alabama ("the Alabamas were members of the Creek Confederacy")
Wiktionary
From Alabama Albaamaha, the name of a people formerly native to the area.
- A state of the United States. Capital: Montgomery. Largest city: Birmingham.
- A river in Alabama; flowing 318 miles from the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa near Coosada until its confluence with the Tombigbee, forming the Mobile, near Calvert.
- An indigenous Muscogee people of central Alabama.
- Synonym: Alibamu
- A Muskogean language, spoken by the Alabama people.
- Synonym: Alibamu
- A town in New York; named for the state.
- The University of Alabama.
Alabama was also found in the following language(s): Czech, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, and Spanish