Entry № 11586 · Lakota origin

Wynona Wynona — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ wy-NOH-nuh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Lakota
Meaning
"Firstborn daughter (Wynonna Judd country music)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Lakota)

A name that means "firstborn daughter (wynonna judd country music)".

Wynona is from the Lakota Sioux Wenona (firstborn daughter). Winona, Minnesota — American city; founded 1851. Wynona's Big Brown Beaver (1995) — Primus song.

Firstborn daughter (Lakota).

The name in its native script.

Wynona
Transliteration
Wynona
Pronunciation
/ waɪˈnoʊ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wynona stands.

Wynona 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.

Wynonas before her.

Real people
Wynonna Judd
American country singer (5 Grammys).
born 1964
In fiction
Wenonah
Longfellow's Hiawatha (1855).
1855

Names connected to Wynona.

The number behind Wynona.

2

The Peacemaker

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