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Surname & clanUnisex

Olúṣọlá

/oh-LOO-shaw-LAH/

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Meaning

the Lord has brought about honour

Olú (the Lord, God) with ṣe (to do, to bring about) and ọlá (honour, dignity), so the Lord has acted honourably. Given at naming when a birth is received as an act of divine honour on the family, and commonly shortened to Ṣọlá.

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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