Entry № 146 · Other origin

Adetokunbo Adetokunbo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-deh-toh-KOON-boh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Crown from across the seas (Yoruba + Soyinka Antetokounmpo)"
Syllables
5
First recorded
Medieval (Yoruba)

A name that means "crown from across the seas (yoruba + soyinka antetokounmpo)".

Adetokunbo is from the Yoruba Adétòkunbọ́ — adé crown + tó arrived + òkun sea + bọ́ across — the crown returned from across the seas, royalty returned from overseas. Adetokunbo is one of the Yoruba feminine + unisex names — central to traditional Nigerian + West African heritage.

Crown from across the seas (Yoruba).

The name in its native script.

Adétòkunbọ́
Transliteration
Adétòkunbọ́
Pronunciation
/ ɑː.dɛ.toʊˈkuːn.boʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Adetokunbo stands.

Adetokunbo 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.

Adetokunbos before her.

Real people
Wole (Adetokunbo) Soyinka
First African Nobel laureate in Literature 1986 + Nigerian playwright + poet + Adetokunbo middle name.
born 1934
In fiction
Giannis Adetokunbo Antetokounmpo
Greek-Nigerian NBA superstar + Greek Freak + NBA MVP 2019 + 2020 + NBA Champion + Finals MVP 2021.
born 1994

Names connected to Adetokunbo.

The number behind Adetokunbo.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Adetokunbo reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.