Puma
Puma is a girl name of Latin origin, meaning The swift mountain cat.
What Puma means
The swift mountain cat.
Puma is short — 4 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Puma comes from
Latin names travelled through the Roman world and then through the Church, which is why so many survive across Europe in local variants. A great many were originally descriptive — of virtue, of appearance, or of birth order.
Puma is recorded as Latin in origin. Browse other Latin names.
How popular is Puma?
Puma is not in the current top 100 girl names we track. In practice that means a child called Puma is unlikely to be one of three in a classroom — the name is established and recognisable, just not in heavy circulation right now.
The character of Puma
We group Puma under Celebrity and the natural world — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Puma
These share Puma's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Apple — The sweet apple fruit.
- Birdie — Little bird.
- Bear — Strong and brave as a bear.
- Sparrow — The small, lively bird.
- Wolf — The wolf; a brave wanderer.
- Aurora — Dawn; goddess of sunrise.
- Juniper — The evergreen juniper; youth-giving.
- Olivia — Olive tree — peace, dignity, friendship.
- Rose — The rose flower.
- Violet — The violet flower; the color purple.
- Autumn — The harvest season.
- Camellia — The camellia flower.