Entry № 4736 · Yoruba origin

Iyabo Iyabo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-YAH-bo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Mother has returned"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Yoruba)

A name that means "mother has returned".

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.

Mother has returned. The Yoruba reincarnation.

The name in its native script.

Iyabo
Transliteration
Iyabo
Pronunciation
/ iˈjɑː.boʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Iyabo stands.

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.

Iyabos before her.

Real people
Iyabo Obasanjo
Nigerian politician.
born 1967
In fiction
Iyabo
Common in Nigerian fiction.

Names connected to Iyabo.

The number behind Iyabo.

7

The Seeker

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.