The term probably means "tribes", or the "tribal union", and then could turn into a collective ethnic name.

Test writers now consult baby-naming books for a variety of ethnic names.

Others want to reclaim the ethnic names that their ancestors shortened.

Many others of these major groups called castes bear merely tribal or ethnic names.

There was never in my household or neighborhood any racial, religious, or ethnic name calling.

"All of a sudden money starts pouring in with every ethnic name on the check."

This led to a result in which villages that had very different cultural practices and histories were lumped under the same ethnic name.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that ethnic first names endure for a generation at most.

Although some ethnic names remain distinctive, those differences tend to dissipate over time.

The name supposedly was used as an ethnic name in those inscriptions.