Given nameUnisex

Ọláyẹmí

/oh-LAH-yeh-MEE (ẹ as in "bet")/

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Meaning

honour befits me

Ọlá (honour, prestige, wealth) + yẹ (to befit, to suit) + mí (me), so "honour befits me". Given at naming as a praise name for a child the family receives as a mark of dignity.

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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