Surname & clanMasculine

Olúṣẹ́gun

/oh-LOO-sheh-gun (ṣ as "sh", ẹ open as in "bet")/

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Meaning

the Lord conquers

From Olú (lord, shortened from Olúwa, God) with the verb ṣẹ́ (to break, to defeat) and ogun (war), so the name is a clause, "the Lord defeats the war", not a noun phrase about victory. It is given as a declaration that God has overcome the conflict or hardship surrounding the child's birth.

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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