Adopted 7 October 1954 on 82E/SW. Name changed to Nʕaylintn per request from Osoyoos Indian Band as part of agreement with Ministry of Environment, 7 August 2015.

Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office.

"No traveller in the southern Okanagan can fail to be impressed by the tremendous precipice-faced rock rising at the southern end of Vaseux Lake. This is McIntyre Bluff, named after Peter McIntyre, one of the Overlanders of 1862. Earlier he had been an [Indigenous] fighter and a guard on the Pony Express in the American West. Late in 1886 he received a crown grant to the land beside this bluff."

Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973.