Entry № 122 · Yoruba origin

Adejoke Adejoke — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-deh-JOH-keh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Crown to cherish"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Yoruba)

A name that means "crown to cherish".

Adejoke is from the Yoruba adé (crown) + jọ (to gather) + kẹ́ (to cherish) — the crown we gather to cherish. Joke Silva (Olajoke Jacobs née Silva, born 1961) is a Nigerian actress, director, and theatre practitioner — widely considered one of the figures of Nollywood and Nigerian theatre across five decades. Married Nigerian actor Olu Jacobs (1985).

Crown to cherish (Yoruba).

The name in its native script.

Adéjọkẹ́
Transliteration
Adéjọkẹ́
Pronunciation
/ ɑːˈdeɪ.dʒoʊ.kɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Adejoke stands.

Adejoke does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Adejokes before her.

Real people
Joke Silva (Adejoke)
Nollywood veteran + MFR 2014 + LAPA co-founder.
born 1961
In fiction
Adejoke
Yoruba crown to cherish.

Names connected to Adejoke.

The number behind Adejoke.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Adejoke reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.