Entry № 5867 · Liberian origin

Leymah Leymah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LAY-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Liberian
Meaning
"Liberian peace activist (Nobel Peace 2011)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Liberian)

A name that means "liberian peace activist (nobel peace 2011)".

Leymah is a Kpelle-Liberian feminine name. Leymah Gbowee (born 1972) was the Liberian peace activist who organized the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace — a coalition of Christian and Muslim women whose nonviolent protest and sex strike helped end the Second Liberian Civil War (2003). Co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkol Karman.

Subject of the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008).

Liberian peace activist. Co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.

The name in its native script.

Leymah
Transliteration
Leymah
Pronunciation
/ ˈleɪ.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Leymah stands.

Leymah 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.

Leymahs before her.

Real people
Leymah Gbowee
Liberian Nobel Peace laureate.
born 1972
In fiction
Leymah
Pray the Devil Back to Hell.
2008

Names connected to Leymah.

The number behind Leymah.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Leymah reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.