Given nameUnisex

Ọpẹ́olúwa

/aw-peh-oh-LOO-wah/

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Meaning

thanks be to God

From ọpẹ́ (thanks, gratitude) joined to Olúwa (the Lord), so the gratitude belongs to God. Given when a child's arrival is received as an answered prayer, the family's thanksgiving carried in the name.

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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