At a Glance: Name: Ilé – Meaning: home, house – Origin: Yoruba
Ilé is a Yoruba name meaning “home, house”. It appears in our list of 175+ Yoruba Baby Names Full of Meaning and Cultural Pride.
Meaning & Origin of Ilé
Meaning: Home, house.
Origin: Yoruba.
A common claim: Baby-name sites often list Ile as meaning 'Home / Earth / Land' all at once. Actually: 'Ilé' and 'ilẹ̀' are separate Yoruba words (house/home vs. ground/earth) that differ only in a diacritic; the combined 'home/earth/land' gloss conflates them. 'Ilé' itself means specifically 'house, home.'
Popularity of Ilé
Ilé doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.
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