Adunni (Adúnní) is a Yoruba name composed of a (we, one) and dùn (sweet) and ni (to know, to have) — translating roughly as "one who is sweet to have" or "one whose presence is sweet." It is given to daughters who are particularly treasured, often firstborn or long-awaited.
Adunni is common in Yoruba families in Nigeria and the West African diaspora. The name became known to international readers through Abi Daré's 2020 novel The Girl with the Louding Voice, whose heroine is Adunni. Three syllables, deep meaning.
Adunni 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Adunni reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.