Date
Name Tenaya
Gender Feminine
Usage American (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced Pron. tə-NIE-ə
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Meaning & History
This has been in rare use as a feminine given name in the United States since the 1970s. It is possibly taken from the name of a lake in Yosemite, California, which was itself named for a 19th-century chief of the Ahwahnechee (a Miwok people of the Yosemite Valley), whose name may be derived from Central Sierra Miwok taná·ya- meaning "evening star".