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Boy · Basque
Unai
Say it: oo-NAI
Meaning
Basque unai 'cowherd, herdsman', used as a given name since the 20th century.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 13 babies given this name since 2017
- At its height in 2020, about 1 in 213,300 boys
- 8 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
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Where this comes from
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.