Entry № 7780 · Yoruba origin

Oluwafunmilayo Oluwafunmilayo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ oh-loo-wah-foon-mee-LAH-yoh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti - Nigerian feminist + Fela Kuti's mother"
Syllables
6
First recorded
Modern (Yoruba)

A name that means "funmilayo ransome-kuti - nigerian feminist + fela kuti's mother".

Oluwafunmilayo is from the Yoruba Olúwa (God / Lord) + fún mi (gave me) + láyò (joy) — God gave me joy. Lenin Peace Prize (1970).

God gave me joy (Yoruba).

The name in its native script.

Olúwafúnmiláyò
Transliteration
Olúwafúnmiláyò
Pronunciation
/ oʊˌluː.wəˌfʊn.miːˈlɑː.joʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Oluwafunmilayo stands.

Oluwafunmilayo 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.

Oluwafunmilayos before her.

Real people
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Nigerian feminist + Lenin Peace Prize 1970 + Fela Kuti's mother.
1900 – 1978
In fiction
Oluwafunmilayo
Yoruba God gave me joy.

Names connected to Oluwafunmilayo.

The number behind Oluwafunmilayo.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Oluwafunmilayo reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.