Entry № 9863 · English origin

Sojourner Sojourner — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SOH-jur-ner /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and women's rights orator"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "sojourner truth, abolitionist and women's rights orator".

Sojourner means "one who stays temporarily" in English. Sojourner Truth (c.

Renamed herself after a religious vision.

The name in its native script.

Sojourner
Transliteration
Sojourner
Pronunciation
/ ˈsoʊ.dʒɜːr.nər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sojourner stands.

Sojourner 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.

Sojourners before her.

Real people
Sojourner Truth
American abolitionist and women's rights orator.
c. 1797 – 1883
In fiction
Sojourner
Mars rover named for her.
1997

Names connected to Sojourner.

The number behind Sojourner.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sojourner reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.