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Sacajawea Sacajawea — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-kah-jah-WEE-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Shoshone Lewis and Clark expedition"
Syllables
5
First recorded
Modern (Shoshone)

A name that means "shoshone lewis and clark expedition".

Sacajawea is from the Lemhi Shoshone Sacajawea — possibly bird woman (Hidatsa: tsakáka wía) — though etymology remains debated among Shoshone + Hidatsa scholars. Sacajawea (c. 1788-1812) was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who became the interpreter + guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Corps of Discovery, 1804-1806) — widely considered one of the figures of American exploration history. Featured on the U.S. circulating coin.

Bird woman (Lemhi Shoshone-Hidatsa). circulating coin).

The name in its native script.

Sacajawea
Transliteration
Sacajawea
Pronunciation
/ ˌsɑː.kə.dʒəˈwiː.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sacajawea stands.

Sacajawea 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.

Sacajaweas before her.

Real people
Sacajawea
Lewis and Clark Expedition interpreter + U.S. dollar coin.
c. 1788 – 1812
In fiction
Sacajawea
Shoshone bird woman.

Names connected to Sacajawea.

The number behind Sacajawea.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sacajawea reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.