Surname & clanMasculine

Ọlátúnjí

/aw-LAH-toon-jee (ọ as in "law")/

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Meaning

honour awakens again

From ọlá (honour, nobility, standing), tún (again) and jí (to wake), so the name reads as a family's standing waking a second time. It is given to a child born after an elder's death, often a namesake, whose arrival is seen as that honour returning to the house.

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. attested by a living bearer of the name, 2026-08-07: Borne as a family name, which settles a type this corpus had only inferred.

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