Entry № 3017 · Other origin

Enitan Enitan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ eh-NEE-tahn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Person of story (Yoruba + Sefi Atta)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "person of story (yoruba + sefi atta)".

Enitan is from Eníìtàn.

Person of story (Yoruba + Sefi Atta).

The name in its native script.

Eníìtàn
Transliteration
Eníìtàn
Pronunciation
/ ɛˈniː.tæn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Enitan stands.

Enitan 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.

Enitans before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sefi Atta Everything Good Will Come
Central character Enitan Taiwo in Sefi Attas Nigerian novel 2005 + Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa 2006
Nigerian literature

Names connected to Enitan.

The number behind Enitan.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Enitan reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.