Surname & clanMasculine

Òjó

/oh-JOH (low tone, then high)/

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Meaning

boy born with the umbilical cord coiled around him

Òjó is not a compound but one of the fixed àmútọ̀runwá names (à-mú-ọ̀run-wá, "one who brought it from heaven"), the class given for the circumstances of a birth rather than chosen by the family. It is given at birth to a boy who arrives with the umbilical cord wound around his neck or body; the girl born the same way is Àìná.

Who carries it

Yoruba (Yorùbá)

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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