Ọpẹ: Name Meaning, Origin & Popularity

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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