Given nameUnisex

Ọpẹ́yẹmí

/aw-peh-YEH-mee/

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Meaning

thanksgiving befits me

From ọpẹ́ (thanks, gratitude) plus yẹ (befits, is fitting for) plus mí (me), so gratitude is what is fitting for what I have been given. Given as a name of thanksgiving for the child's arrival.

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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