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Yanaba Yanaba — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YAH-nah-bah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Meets the enemy"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Navajo)

A name that means "meets the enemy".

Yanaba is from the Navajo / Diné Yanaba — she meets the enemy, brave one, she who confronts. Yanaba is one of the Navajo feminine names — central to traditional Navajo Indigenous heritage. Navajo feminine name reflecting Indigenous Diné heritage.

Meets the enemy (Navajo / Diné).

The name in its native script.

Yanaba
Transliteration
Yanaba
Pronunciation
/ ˈjɑː.nə.bə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yanaba stands.

Yanaba 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.

Yanabas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Yanaba
Navajo meets the enemy.

Names connected to Yanaba.

The number behind Yanaba.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yanaba reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.