Entry № 140 · Other origin

Aderonke Aderonke — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-deh-RON-keh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Crown to be cherished"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Yoruba)

A name that means "crown to be cherished".

Aderonke is from the Yoruba Adérónkẹ́ — adé crown + rónkẹ́ to find someone/something to cherish — the crown has someone to cherish, royalty to be cherished. Aderonke is one of the Yoruba feminine names — central to traditional Nigerian + West African heritage. Yoruba feminine name reflecting Nigerian royal heritage.

Crown to be cherished (Yoruba).

The name in its native script.

Adérónkẹ́
Transliteration
Adérónkẹ́
Pronunciation
/ ɑː.dɛˈrɒn.kɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aderonke stands.

Aderonke 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.

Aderonkes before her.

Real people

In fiction
Aderonke
Yoruba crown to be cherished + Yoruba royal-naming heritage + Oyo Empire + Ife Kingdom + Ifa divination UNESCO Intangible Heritage 2008.

Names connected to Aderonke.

The number behind Aderonke.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aderonke reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.