"Traditional Cherokee name"
The name Sequoyah is commonly a unisex name from the "Cherokee" origin.
Sequoyah is a Cherokee personal name, best known from Sequoyah (born around 1770, died 1843), the Cherokee man who devised the Cherokee syllabary, completed around 1821. English-language use of the name follows that historical figure. The etymology of the Cherokee name itself is not settled in the reference literature, so no meaning is given here.
The pronunciation of Sequoyah is suh-KWOY-uh.
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