Entry № 7829 · Yoruba origin

Oshun Oshun — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OH-shoon /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Orisha of rivers, love and beauty"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "orisha of rivers, love and beauty".

Oshun is the Yoruba orisha of rivers, love, beauty and fresh water — sweet, generous and radiant.

Beloved across West Africa and the Americas, her name flows with grace.

Orisha of rivers, love and beauty — a name from Yoruba myth.

The name in its native script.

Oshun
Transliteration
Oshun
Pronunciation
/ oˈʃun /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Oshun stands.

Oshun 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.

Oshuns before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Oshun.

The number behind Oshun.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Oshun reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.