Navajo
Spanish/Tewa · Boy · 3 syllables
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About the name Navajo
The name "Navajo" derives from the Spanish "Navajó," which likely comes from the Tewa Pueblo word "navahu" meaning "great fields" or "arroyo," referring to the geographic landscape of the southwestern United States.
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Etymology
The name "Navajo" derives from the Spanish "Navajó," which likely comes from the Tewa Pueblo word "navahu" meaning "great fields" or "arroyo," referring to the geographic landscape of the southwestern United States. The term is primarily used by the Navajo people themselves (who call themselves Diné, meaning "the people") and entered English usage through Spanish colonial contact; the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized Native American tribe in the United States.
Navajo currently ranks #1,077 in the United States as a boy's name. It reached its peak popularity around 1891.
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