Entry № 7879 · Yoruba origin

Oya Oya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OH-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Orisha of winds and storms"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "orisha of winds and storms".

Oya is the Yoruba orisha of winds, storms and transformation, guardian of the river Niger.

Orisha of winds and storms — a Yoruba name.

The name in its native script.

Oya
Transliteration
Oya
Pronunciation
/ ˈo.ja /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Oya stands.

Oya 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.

Oyas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Oya.

The number behind Oya.

5

The Seeker

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