"Traditional name"
The name Kiowa is commonly a unisex name.
Kiowa is the English form of the name the Kiowa people of the southern Great Plains use for themselves, written Cauigu or Ka'igwu in the Kiowa language, which belongs to the Tanoan family. Reference works on American Indian peoples gloss the word as 'principal people' or 'main people'. Its use as a personal name in the United States is recent, first appearing in birth records in 1972.
The pronunciation of Kiowa is KYE-uh-wuh.
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