Entry № 3479 · Yoruba origin

Funmi Funmi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FOON-mee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Give me joy (Yoruba + Funmi Iyanda + Funmilayo short)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Yoruba)

A name that means "give me joy (yoruba + funmi iyanda + funmilayo short)".

Funmi is from the Yoruba fún mi (give me) — short form of Olufunmilayo (God gave me joy). Funmi is one of the Yoruba feminine short forms used across Nigeria and the Yoruba diaspora.

Give me joy (Yoruba).

The name in its native script.

Fúnmi
Transliteration
Fúnmi
Pronunciation
/ ˈfʊn.miː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Funmi stands.

Funmi 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.

Funmis before her.

Real people
Funmi Iyanda
Nigerian broadcaster + journalist + women's rights advocate.
born 1971
In fiction
Funmi
Yoruba give me joy.

Names connected to Funmi.

The number behind Funmi.

9

The Giver

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