Given name & surname · also Spanish
Navajo
“field adjoining an arroyo”
Navajo is a surname from Spanish, ultimately from Tewa.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Navajo goes back to Tewa navahúuˀu, meaning “field adjoining an arroyo.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Navajo comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Tewa.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Spanish navajo, from Tewa navahúuˀu (“field adjoining an arroyo”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1891. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Navajo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1891
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1891. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 156 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Navajo’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Navajo
- Navajo BakboordSurinamese footballerborn 1999
- Navajo StirlingNew Zealand mixed martial artist (born 1997)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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