Entry № 10451 · Other origin

Temitayo Temitayo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ teh-mee-TAH-yoh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Mine is joy"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "mine is joy".

Temitayo is from Tèmítáyọ̀.

Mine is joy.

The name in its native script.

Tèmítáyọ̀
Transliteration
Tèmítáyọ̀
Pronunciation
/ tɛ.miːˈtɑː.joʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Temitayo stands.

Temitayo 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.

Temitayos before her.

Real people

In fiction
Yoruba personal-joy naming
Yoruba mine is joy + tèmi mine + ayọ̀ joy + Yoruba personal-joy naming + Temitayo Fagbenle Nigerian-British journalist actress
Yoruba heritage

Names connected to Temitayo.

The number behind Temitayo.

9

The Giver

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