Entry № 7776 · Iroquois origin

Onatah Onatah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ oh-NAH-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Iroquois
Meaning
"Spirit of the corn"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Iroquois)

A name that means "spirit of the corn".

Onatah is the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) name of the corn spirit — daughter of Mother Earth, the bringer of the harvest. One of the Three Sisters of Iroquois agriculture (corn, beans, squash).

Used as a feminine name in Iroquois tradition.

Spirit of the corn. The Iroquois Three Sisters.

The name in its native script.

Onatah
Transliteration
Onatah
Pronunciation
/ oʊˈnɑː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Onatah stands.

Onatah 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.

Onatahs before her.

Real people
Onatah
Iroquois corn spirit.
In fiction
Onatah
Common in Native American fiction.

Names connected to Onatah.

The number behind Onatah.

5

The Seeker

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