Entry № 3413 · Yoruba origin

Foluke Foluke — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ foh-LOO-keh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Given to God (Yoruba + Foluke Daramola - Nollywood)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Yoruba)

A name that means "given to god (yoruba + foluke daramola - nollywood)".

Foluke is from the Yoruba fi (give) + Olú (Lord) + kẹ́ (to cherish) — given to the Lord to cherish. Member of Nigerian political reform movements.

Given to God (Yoruba).

The name in its native script.

Fọlúkẹ́
Transliteration
Fọlúkẹ́
Pronunciation
/ foʊˈluː.kɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Foluke stands.

Foluke 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.

Folukes before her.

Real people
Foluke Daramola
Nollywood Yoruba-language veteran + One Voice Initiative.
born 1978
In fiction
Foluke
Yoruba given to God.

Names connected to Foluke.

The number behind Foluke.

7

The Seeker

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