Entry № 10695 · Yoruba origin

Toyin Toyin — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TOH-yeen /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Worthy of praise (Toyin Saraki - Nigerian philanthropist + Wellbeing Foundation)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern (Yoruba)

A name that means "worthy of praise (toyin saraki - nigerian philanthropist + wellbeing foundation)".

Toyin is from the Yoruba tó (worthy of) + yìn (praise) — worthy of praise. figure in 21st-century African maternal health advocacy.

Worthy of praise (Yoruba).

The name in its native script.

Tóyìn
Transliteration
Tóyìn
Pronunciation
/ ˈtoʊ.jiːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Toyin stands.

Toyin 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.

Toyins before her.

Real people
Toyin Saraki
Wellbeing Foundation Africa + maternal health advocate.
born 1964
In fiction
Toyin
Yoruba worthy of praise.

Names connected to Toyin.

The number behind Toyin.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Toyin reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.