At a Glance: Name: Ọpẹ – Meaning: Palm tree – Origin: Yoruba – Gender: Unisex
Ọpẹ is a Yoruba unisex name meaning “Palm tree”. It appears in our list of 175+ Yoruba Baby Names Full of Meaning and Cultural Pride.
Meaning & Origin of Ọpẹ
Meaning: Palm tree.
Origin: Yoruba.
A common claim: Ọpẹ is said to mean 'give thanks' or 'praise', often as a short form of Opeyemi Actually: The word ọpẹ documented for this name actually means 'palm tree' (and also names a calendar month) — the 'thanks' sense belongs to a different, tonally distinct Yoruba word.
Source: Wiktionary.
Popularity of Ọpẹ
Ọpẹ 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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