At a Glance: Name: Ọlábánjọ – Meaning: honor/wealth suits or resembles [the bearer] (from the bá...jọ construction, 'to match/fit/resemble') – Origin: Yoruba – Gender: Unisex
Ọlábánjọ is a Yoruba unisex name meaning “honor/wealth suits or resembles [the bearer] (from the bá...jọ construction, 'to match/fit/resemble')”. It appears in our list of 175+ Yoruba Baby Names Full of Meaning and Cultural Pride.
Meaning & Origin of Ọlábánjọ
Meaning: Honor/wealth suits or resembles [the bearer] (from the bá...jọ construction, 'to match/fit/resemble').
Origin: Yoruba.
A common claim: Honor pleases me Actually: The common gloss 'honor pleases me' doesn't match the Yoruba grammar of bá...jọ ('to suit/match/resemble'); a more literal sense is 'honor suits/becomes him or her.'
Popularity of Ọlábánjọ
Ọlábánjọ 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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