Entry № 1685 · Yoruba origin

Bukola Bukola — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ boo-KOH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Added to wealth"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Yoruba)

A name that means "added to wealth".

Bukola is the Yoruba name meaning "added to wealth" — celebrating a daughter as an increase of family prosperity.

Bukola Adeyemi (Bukola Elemide, born 1981) is the Nigerian singer Asa.

Added to wealth. The Nigerian singer Asa.

The name in its native script.

Bukola
Transliteration
Bukola
Pronunciation
/ buːˈkoʊ.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bukola stands.

Bukola 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.

Bukolas before her.

Real people
Bukola Elemide
Nigerian singer (Asa).
born 1981
In fiction
Bukola
Common in Nollywood.

Names connected to Bukola.

The number behind Bukola.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bukola reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.