Entry № 7804 · Other origin

Omowunmi Omowunmi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ oh-moh-WOON-mee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Child I desired"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Yoruba)

A name that means "child i desired".

Omowunmi is from the Yoruba Ọmọwùnmi — ọmọ child + wù mi desired by me — the child I desired. Omowunmi is one of the Yoruba feminine names — central to traditional Nigerian + West African heritage. Yoruba feminine name reflecting Nigerian child-naming heritage.

Child I desired (Yoruba).

The name in its native script.

Ọmọwùnmi
Transliteration
Ọmọwùnmi
Pronunciation
/ oʊ.moʊˈwʊn.mi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Omowunmi stands.

Omowunmi 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.

Omowunmis before her.

Real people
Omowunmi Sadik
Nigerian-American chemist + pioneering biosensor research + SUNY Distinguished Professor.
Contemporary
In fiction
Omowunmi / Ikomojade
Yoruba child-naming heritage + Naming Ceremony Ikomojade on eighth day + Oyo Empire + Ife Kingdom + Ifa divination UNESCO Intangible Heritage 2008.

Names connected to Omowunmi.

The number behind Omowunmi.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Omowunmi reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.