Hiawatha name - Meaning of Hiawatha

Hiawatha name - Meaning of Hiawatha

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Gender
Masculine
Lucky Number
8
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Usage
History, Native American, Iroquois
Pronounced
hie-ə-WAHTH-ə (English)
Hiawatha Meaning
From the Iroquoian name Haio-went-ha meaning "he who combs". This was the name of a 16th-century Mohawk leader who founded the Iroquois Confederacy. He was later the subject of a fictionalized 1855 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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