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Yanaba Yanaba — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YAH-nah-bah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Meets the enemy"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Navajo)

A name that means "meets the enemy".

Yanaba is from the Navajo / Diné Yanaba — she meets the enemy, brave one, she who confronts. Yanaba is one of the Navajo feminine names — central to traditional Navajo Indigenous heritage. Navajo feminine name reflecting Indigenous Diné heritage.

Meets the enemy (Navajo / Diné).

The name in its native script.

Yanaba
Transliteration
Yanaba
Pronunciation
/ ˈjɑː.nə.bə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Yanaba stands.

Yanaba 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.

Yanabas before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Yanaba
Navajo meets the enemy.

Names connected to Yanaba.

The number behind Yanaba.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yanaba reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.