Entry № 11581 · Other origin

Wuraola Wuraola — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ woo-rah-OH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Gold-honor child"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Yoruba)

A name that means "gold-honor child".

Wuraola is from the Yoruba Wúràọlá — wúrà gold + ọlá honor/wealth — gold for a child of honor, gold and wealth. Wuraola is one of the Yoruba feminine names — central to traditional Nigerian + West African heritage. Notable bearer: Wuraola Ofunne Disu Nigerian-American journalist. Yoruba feminine name reflecting Nigerian gold-honor heritage.

Gold-honor child (Yoruba).

The name in its native script.

Wúràọlá
Transliteration
Wúràọlá
Pronunciation
/ wuːrɑːˈoʊ.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wuraola stands.

Wuraola 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.

Wuraolas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Wuraola / Yoruba gold trade
Yoruba precious-naming + Yoruba gold trade + Ife Kingdom gold-producing region + Wagadou Empire / Mali Empire / Songhai Empire West African gold civilizations + Ifa divination UNESCO 2008.
Yoruba heritage

Names connected to Wuraola.

The number behind Wuraola.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wuraola reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.