Entry № 3315 · Yoruba origin

Feyi Feyi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FEH-yee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Praise (Yoruba feminine praise name)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern (Yoruba)

A name that means "praise (yoruba feminine praise name)".

Feyi is from the Yoruba fẹyìn (praise, glory) — short form of names like Feyikemi, Feyisara, or Oluwafeyikemi. Feyi is one of the Yoruba feminine short forms — used across the Yoruba diaspora.

Praise (Yoruba feminine praise name) — a Yoruba name.

The name in its native script.

Fẹyì
Transliteration
Fẹyì
Pronunciation
/ ˈfeɪ.jiː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Feyi stands.

Feyi 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.

Feyis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Feyi
Yoruba praise.

Names connected to Feyi.

The number behind Feyi.

9

The Giver

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