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Winema Winema — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ wee-NEH-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Strong woman (Modoc + Winema Modoc warrior diplomat)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Modoc)

A name that means "strong woman (modoc + winema modoc warrior diplomat)".

Winema is from the Modoc Winema — strong/ woman, chief woman. Winema is one of the Modoc feminine names — central to traditional Modoc Indigenous Plateau heritage of Klamath-Modoc region (Oregon + California).

Strong woman (Modoc + Winema Modoc warrior diplomat).

The name in its native script.

Winema
Transliteration
Winema
Pronunciation
/ wiːˈnɛ.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Winema stands.

Winema 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.

Winemas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Winema (Toby Riddle)
Modoc mediator + Modoc War 1872-73 + Winema National Forest.

Names connected to Winema.

The number behind Winema.

2

The Peacemaker

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