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Wachiwi Wachiwi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ wah-CHEE-wee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Dancing girl"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Lakota)

A name that means "dancing girl".

Wachiwi is from the Lakota Wachíwi — dancing girl, dancer. Wachiwi is one of the Lakota feminine names — central to traditional Lakota Indigenous heritage. Lakota feminine name reflecting Indigenous Plains heritage.

Dancing girl (Lakota Sioux).

The name in its native script.

Wachíwi
Transliteration
Wachíwi
Pronunciation
/ wəˈtʃiː.wiː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wachiwi stands.

Wachiwi 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.

Wachiwis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Wachiwi
Lakota dancing girl.

Names connected to Wachiwi.

The number behind Wachiwi.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wachiwi reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.