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Olufunmilayo Olufunmilayo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ oh-loo-FOON-mee-lah-yoh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"God has given me joy (Yoruba + Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti)"
Syllables
5
First recorded
Medieval (Yoruba)

A name that means "god has given me joy (yoruba + funmilayo ransome-kuti)".

Olufunmilayo is from the Yoruba Olúfúnmiláyọ̀ — Olú God/Lord + fún gave + mi me + láyọ̀ joy — God has given me joy. Olufunmilayo is one of the Yoruba feminine names — central to traditional Nigerian + West African heritage.

God has given me joy (Yoruba).

The name in its native script.

Olúfúnmiláyọ̀
Transliteration
Olúfúnmiláyọ̀
Pronunciation
/ oʊ.luːˈfʊn.mi.lɑː.joʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Olufunmilayo stands.

Olufunmilayo 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.

Olufunmilayos before her.

Real people
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Nigerian women's rights pioneer + educator + political activist + founder of Abeokuta Women's Union 1944 + forced abdication of Oba Ademola II + first Nigerian woman to drive a car + mother of Fela Kuti.
1900 – 1978
In fiction
Olufunmilayo
Yoruba theophoric heritage + Olú God + Abeokuta Women's Union + Afrobeat heritage through Fela + Femi + Seun Kuti.

Names connected to Olufunmilayo.

The number behind Olufunmilayo.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Olufunmilayo reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.