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The name's popularity grew in the 1990s in the United States. It was among the top 100 most popular boy names from 1993 to 2001, reaching its peak at number 56 in 1995. [5] Since 2010, it has been slightly more frequently given to girls. As of 2021, it was the 270th most common girl name and the 344th most common boy name. [5]
Brule County - from the Sičangu or Brule from French meaning “burnt” due to the name ‘Sičangu’ meaning burnt thighs in Lakota. Minnehaha County – from Dakota mniȟáȟa, meaning "waterfall". Oglala Lakota County – Lakota for "to scatter one's own". [137] Yankton County – corruption of Sioux Ihanktonwan, meaning "the end village ...
The Dakota language is a Mississippi Valley Siouan language, belonging to the greater Siouan-Catawban language family. It is closely related to and mutually intelligible with the Lakota language, and both are also more distantly related to the Stoney and Assiniboine languages. Dakota is written in the Latin script and has a dictionary and ...
The Latin name Caesarea was also applied to the colony of New Jersey as Nova Caesarea, because the Roman name of the island was thought to have been Caesarea. [70] [71] The name "Jersey" most likely comes from the Norse name Geirrsey, meaning 'Geirr's Island'. [72] New Mexico: November 1, 1859: Nahuatl via Spanish: Mēxihco via Nuevo México
The Dakotas, also known as simply Dakota, is a collective term for the U.S. states of North Dakota and South Dakota.It has been used historically to describe the Dakota Territory, and is still used for the collective heritage, [2] culture, geography, [3] fauna, [4] sociology, [5] economy, [6] [7] and cuisine [8] of the two states.
The term Dakota has also been applied by anthropologists and governmental departments to refer to all Sioux groups, resulting in names such as Teton Dakota, Santee Dakota, etc. This was mainly because of the misrepresented translation of the Ottawa word from which Sioux is derived. [28]
Word/name: Dakota: Meaning "firstborn daughter" Winona is a feminine given name, an Anglicized form of the Dakota descriptive term, Winúŋna, meaning "firstborn ...
City of Anoka – Dakota for "the other side" or "both sides" for the city being on both sides of Rum River. Possibly also from Ojibwe anoki meaning "I work", referring to local logging sites. [4] [5] [6] Big Stone County – English translation of the Dakota name for Big Stone Lake mde inyan tankinyanyan: "very big stone" [7] [8] [9]