Meaning & Origin
A state in the western United States. Capital and largest city: Salt Lake City.
Utah is a boy's baby name of Native American origin, from the Ute people whose name may mean 'people of the mountains' — from the Numic word yuttahih. The state of Utah, home to five national parks and the Great Salt Lake, was named after these Indigenous people. It is also the ancestral homeland of the Navajo, Paiute, Shoshone, and Goshute peoples.
With 382 recorded U.S. births, Utah as a given name carries both its Indigenous heritage and the dramatic natural grandeur of red rock canyons, powder snow, and open skies — a name for a child born into big country.