Entry № 1566 · Yoruba origin

Bolanle Bolanle — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ boh-LAHN-leh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"One who finds wealth"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Yoruba)

A name that means "one who finds wealth".

Bolanle is the Yoruba name meaning "one who finds wealth at home" — celebrating a daughter as a blessing of prosperity.

Bolanle is widely used in Nigeria.

One who finds wealth. The Yoruba prosperity.

The name in its native script.

Bolanle
Transliteration
Bolanle
Pronunciation
/ boʊˈlɑːn.lɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bolanle stands.

Bolanle 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.

Bolanles before her.

Real people
Bolanle Austen-Peters
Nigerian filmmaker.
In fiction
Bolanle
Heroine of The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives.
Lola Shoneyin, 2010

Names connected to Bolanle.

The number behind Bolanle.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bolanle reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.