Entry № 5088 · Hopi origin

Kachina Kachina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-CHEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hopi
Meaning
"Spirit, sacred dancer"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hopi)

A name that means "spirit, sacred dancer".

Kachina is a Hopi (Native American) name referring to the spirit beings who serve as intermediaries between the human and spirit worlds. The Kachina dolls of the American Southwest are carved representations of these spirits.

Kachina is rare as a given name in the modern U.S. but distinctive.

Spirit. The Hopi intermediary of the sacred.

The name in its native script.

Kachina
Transliteration
Kachina
Pronunciation
/ kəˈtʃiː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kachina stands.

Kachina does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kachinas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Kachina.

The number behind Kachina.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kachina reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.