Entry № 10452 · Yoruba origin

Temitope Temitope — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ teh-mee-TOH-peh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Mine is worthy of thanks (Yoruba name)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Yoruba)

A name that means "mine is worthy of thanks (yoruba name)".

Temitope is from the Yoruba tèmi (mine) + tó (worthy of) + ọpẹ́ (thanks) — mine is worthy of thanks (to God). Temitope is one of the Yoruba thanksgiving names — given to children whose birth is considered a blessing. Notable bearers include Temitope Balogun Joshua (T. B. example of Yoruba religious-thanksgiving naming convention.

Mine is worthy of thanks (Yoruba). Yoruba thanksgiving name + T. B.

The name in its native script.

Tẹ̀mítọ́pẹ́
Transliteration
Tẹ̀mítọ́pẹ́
Pronunciation
/ ˌtɛ.miːˈtoʊ.pɛ /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Temitope stands.

Temitope 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.

Temitopes before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Temitope
Yoruba thanksgiving name.

Names connected to Temitope.

The number behind Temitope.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Temitope reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.