Entry № 11490 · Cherokee origin

Waya Waya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Cherokee
Meaning
"A wolf"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a wolf".

Waya is a name of Cherokee origin, meaning a wolf.

A wolf — a Cherokee name.

The name in its native script.

Waya
Transliteration
Waya
Pronunciation
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Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Waya stands.

Waya 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.

Wayas before her.

Real people

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In fiction

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Names connected to Waya.

The number behind Waya.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Waya reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.