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Wegahta Wegahta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ weh-GAH-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Dawn"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Tigrinya)

A name that means "dawn".

Wegahta is from the Tigrinya ወጋሕታ (Wegaḥta) — dawn, daybreak. Wegahta is one of the Eritrean feminine names — central to traditional Tigrinya cultural heritage. Eritrean Tigrinya feminine name reflecting national identity.

Dawn.

The name in its native script.

ወጋሕታ
Transliteration
Wegaḥta
Pronunciation
/ wɛˈɡɑː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wegahta stands.

Wegahta 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.

Wegahtas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Wegahta
Eritrean dawn.

Names connected to Wegahta.

The number behind Wegahta.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wegahta reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.