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Yaaba Yaaba — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YAH-bah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Grandmother"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "grandmother".

Yaaba is a girls' name meaning grandmother.

Grandmother.

The name in its native script.

Yaaba
Transliteration
Yaaba
Pronunciation
/ ˈjɑː.bə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yaaba stands.

Yaaba 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.

Yaabas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Yaaba film 1989 / Idrissa Ouédraogo
Mossi grandmother + Yaaba 1989 film by Burkinabe Idrissa Ouédraogo + Cannes 1989 FIPRESCI Prize + pan-African film + Burkinabe + Sahelian heritage
African cinema

Names connected to Yaaba.

The number behind Yaaba.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yaaba reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.