Entry № 4440 · Igbo origin

Ifeoma Ifeoma — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-feh-OH-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Igbo
Meaning
"Good thing, beautiful thing"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Igbo)

A name that means "good thing, beautiful thing".

Ifeoma is widely used in Igbo communities.

Good thing. The Igbo daughter blessing.

The name in its native script.

Ifeoma
Transliteration
Ifeoma
Pronunciation
/ ɪfəˈoʊ.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ifeoma stands.

Ifeoma 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.

Ifeomas before her.

Real people
Ifeoma Ozoma
Nigerian-American tech whistleblower.
born 1987
In fiction
Aunt Ifeoma
Character in Purple Hibiscus.
Adichie, 2003

Names connected to Ifeoma.

The number behind Ifeoma.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ifeoma reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.