I was interested to find out what the Lion King names mean, I did after looking through books and the internet, I also found out some other cool facts.

Simba means lion

Nala means gift

Sarabi mean mirage

Kopa (Simab's son in a book series) means heart

Rafiki means friend

Pumbaa means stunned or slow wittied

Shenzi means savage

Banzai means skulk or lurk

Kovu means scar

Zira means hate (Originaly she was going to be called Bianca!)

Nuka means stink

Vitani was originally going to be called Shetani which means devil.

All other names are real Swahili names.

Rafiki's song 'Asante sana, squash banana, we we nuga, mi mi apana' means 'thank you very much, squash banana, your a baboon and i'm not'

Some original Lion King characters were a lion cub named 'Mee-Too' a fox and a Rhino. Sarafina was also more of an important character having more lines.

Simba's great grandfather is named 'Mohatu'

The lyrics in Hakuna Matata are 'when I was a young warthog' but originaly they were going to be 'when I was a young Meerkat'

There you go.