Given nameMasculine

Akínwùnmí

/ah-KEEN-woon-MEE/

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Meaning

valour pleases me

From akin (valour, bravery, the brave one) with wù mí (it pleases me), so the name reads "valour pleases me" or "the hero delights me". It is given at naming to a boy whose arrival the family greets as the coming of a brave one.

Who carries it

Yoruba (Yorùbá)

Also written: Akinwumi, Akínwùmì.

Provenance

generated: 2026-08-07
source: LLM aggregation pass, then screened by three independent reviewers for attestation, morphology and orthography (2026-08-07); unverified, awaiting community affirmation.

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