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Sacajawea

Gender

Female

Origin

Native American
Bird woman; The famous Sacajawea was a Shoshone woman named Boinaiv (grass maiden), who was renamed after Crow warriors captured her as an adolescent and sold her to a French-Canadian fur trader.The trader, Charbonneau, was hired as a guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition but it was Sacajawea, traveling with her newborn son, who was as an invaluable asset on the journey.

Syllables

4

Popularity in the USA

  • Girls: peak in 1976 (rank #7294, 7 births)
Births by year in the USA
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Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA), national baby names data (public domain). This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SSA. Data years: 1880 to 2025. Original data