Given nameUnisex

Ọmọ́tọ́lá

/OH-moh-TOH-lah/

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Meaning

the child is worth as much as honour

Ọmọ (child) with tó (to suffice for, to be worth as much as) and ọlá (wealth, honour, nobility). The tó is the whole name: it does not say the child belongs to wealth, it says the child measures up to it.

Who carries it

Yoruba (Yorùbá)

Provenance

generated: 2026-07-04
source: Yorùbá Names Project dictionary (yorubaname.com), morphology ọmọ-tó-ọlá, read 2026-08-07; attested by a living bearer of the name, 2026-08-07. Corrects an earlier machine gloss that read it as possession. Awaiting community affirmation here.

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