Hosteen

Where Hosteen comes from

Borrowed from Navajo hastiin.
— Wiktionary's entry for Hosteen
  • Navajo
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #677
    8 babies named Hosteen — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Navajo.
Namesakes

No widely known Hosteen turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.