Entry № 1114 · Other origin

Awele Awele — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-WEH-leh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Gentle"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "gentle".

Awele is a girls' name meaning gentle.

Gentle.

The name in its native script.

Awele
Transliteration
Awele
Pronunciation
/ əˈwɛ.lɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Awele stands.

Awele 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.

Aweles before her.

Real people

In fiction
Igbo Nri Kingdom / Chinua Achebe
Igbo gentle gracious good fortune + Nri Kingdom 948-1911 longest-continuous African monarchy + ~50 million Igbo speakers + Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart 1958 + diaspora Atlantic-world
Igbo heritage

Names connected to Awele.

The number behind Awele.

1

The Leader

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