Iyabo combines the Yoruba iya (mother) and bo (returned) — meaning "mother has returned." Like Yetunde, it expresses the Yoruba belief that a deceased grandmother returns through her granddaughter.
Iyabo is widely used in Yoruba communities.
Iyabo 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Iyabo reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.