What does Navajo mean?

Definitions for Navajo
ˈnæv əˌhoʊ, ˈnɑ və-nava·jo

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Navajo.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. Navaho, Navajonoun

    a member of an Athapaskan people that migrated to Arizona and New Mexico and Utah

  2. Navaho, Navajonoun

    the Athapaskan language spoken by the Navaho

Wiktionary

  1. Navajonoun

    A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.

  2. Navajonoun

    An Apachean (Southern Athabaskan) language of the Athabascan language family belonging to the Na-Dené phylum. It is spoken by 149,000 people in the American Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado).

Wikipedia

  1. Navajo

    The Navajo (; British English: Navaho; Navajo: Diné or Naabeehó) are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members as of 2021, the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States; additionally, the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country. The reservation straddles the Four Corners region and covers more than 27,325 square miles (70,000 square km) of land in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. The Navajo Reservation is slightly larger than the state of West Virginia. The Navajo language is spoken throughout the region, and most Navajos also speak English. The states with the largest Navajo populations are Arizona (140,263) and New Mexico (108,306). More than three-fourths of the enrolled Navajo population resides in these two states.Besides the Navajo Nation proper, a small group of Navajos are members of the federally recognized Colorado River Indian Tribes.

ChatGPT

  1. navajo

    The Navajo are a Native American group that is primarily located in the southwestern United States, specifically in areas of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. They constitute the second-largest Native American tribe in the U.S, after the Cherokee. The Navajo Nation is a semi-autonomous Native American-governed territory covering about 17,544,500 acres. The Navajo people are also recognized for their creation of a unique and complex Navajo language, especially their contribution as Code Talkers during World War II. Their traditional economy is based on agriculture and livestock.

Wikidata

  1. Navajo

    Navajo is a census-designated place in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 2,097 at the 2000 census. Navajo is the most Navajo town in the United States, with 95.04% of residents having full or partial Navajo ancestry.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. NAVAJO

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Navajo is ranked #134712 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Navajo surname appeared 125 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Navajo.

    72.8% or 91 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    15.2% or 19 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    6.4% or 8 total occurrences were Black.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Navajo in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Navajo in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Navajo in a Sentence

  1. Manuelito Wheeler:

    This movie is a true classic and we will work hard to uphold the Disney and Pixar standard while giving our Navajo kids an engaging and imaginative way to learn their language.

  2. Campbell Brown:

    The Albuquerque Journal in New Mexico, for example, was able to use that grant money to do extra reporting that was focused on the Navajo Nation, finding that four times more cases of coronavirus existed within that community than the rest of the country, thats really important reporting that may not have been done without those extra funds.

  3. Russell Begaye:

    To come to Navajo, where you know you're going to be covering long distances, driving long hours, (and where) pay is not going to be equal to the state or to the county.

  4. Shawn Redd:

    I know our message resonates, with the personal relationships that I have with thousands of people among Navajo Nation and the twelve other tribes, there is no doubt that I will fracture the native vote, and if I fracture the native vote, the Democrats will not win.

  5. Scott Harelson:

    SRP appreciates and supports the efforts of the Navajo Nation to explore all options to keep the plant operating beyond 2019 should they choose to do so, however, SRP will not be a participant of any potential new ownership group after our current lease ends on Dec. 22, 2019.

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