Entry № 588 · Taíno origin

Anacaona Anacaona — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-nah-cah-OH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Taíno
Meaning
"Golden flower"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Taíno)

A name that means "golden flower".

Anacaona combines the Taíno words ana (flower) and caona (gold) — meaning "golden flower." Queen Anacaona (1474-1504) was the Taíno cacica (chief) of Xaragua, the Hispaniola region. She was hanged by the Spanish at age 29.

Anacaona is rare but rising as Caribbean Indigenous heritage is honored.

Golden flower. The Taíno queen of Hispaniola.

The name in its native script.

Anacaona
Transliteration
Anacaona
Pronunciation
/ ˌɑː.nəˌkɑːˈoʊ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anacaona stands.

Anacaona 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.

Anacaonas before her.

Real people
Queen Anacaona
Taíno cacica of Xaragua.
1474 – 1504
In fiction
Anacaona
Common in Caribbean fiction.

Names connected to Anacaona.

The number behind Anacaona.

5

The Seeker

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