Chayanne as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Chayanne

What is the meaning of the name Chayanne ?

The baby name Chayanne is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced chah-YAHN.

Chayanne is French, Spanish in Origin.

Chayanne is a modern Hispanicized respelling of Cheyenne rather than an inherited Indigenous personal name. Cheyenne entered English through French Cheyenne, representing a Dakota or Lakota exonym usually reconstructed as Šahíyena. The form contains šahíya, applied to Cree people or to speakers of an unintelligible language, plus the diminutive suffix -na; a cautious literal gloss is little Cree or little foreign speaker. Chayanne alters the vowel sequence and visual rhythm to fit Spanish and English name patterns.

As a given name, Chayanne is chiefly late twentieth-century, reinforced by Puerto Rican singer Elmer Figueroa Arcelay, who adopted it as a stage name. Cheyenne had already become familiar in the United States through the Cheyenne Nation, place names, and western film and television. Chayanne appears mostly in Spanish-speaking and Hispanic-diaspora contexts, sometimes feminine despite its best-known male bearer; Cheyanne and Shyanne are close English respellings.