Entry № 1565 · Yoruba origin

Bolaji Bolaji — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ boh-LAH-jee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Meets wealth (Bolaji Ogunmola - Nollywood actress)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Yoruba)

A name that means "meets wealth (bolaji ogunmola - nollywood actress)".

Bolaji is from the Yoruba bá (meet) + olá (wealth) + jí (wake to) — one who wakes to meet wealth. Bolaji Ogunmola (born 1989) is a Nigerian actress — among the most-celebrated contemporary Nollywood actresses. Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Award winner.

Meets wealth (Yoruba).

The name in its native script.

Bọláji
Transliteration
Bọláji
Pronunciation
/ boʊˈlɑː.dʒi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bolaji stands.

Bolaji 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.

Bolajis before her.

Real people
Bolaji Ogunmola
Nollywood + Aníkúlápó + Citation + AMVCA.
born 1989
In fiction
Bolaji
Yoruba meets wealth.

Names connected to Bolaji.

The number behind Bolaji.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bolaji reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.