Entry № 11750 · Yoruba origin

Yejide Yejide — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yeh-JEE-day /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Image of the mother"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Yoruba)

A name that means "image of the mother".

Yejide is a Yoruba (Nigerian) name meaning "the image of the mother" or "the mother is here." Traditionally given to a daughter who resembles her grandmother or mother.

Yejide is the heroine of Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀'s acclaimed novel Stay With Me (2017).

Image of the mother — a Yoruba name.

The name in its native script.

Yejide
Transliteration
Yejide
Pronunciation
/ jəˈdʒiː.deɪ /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Yejide stands.

Yejide 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.

Yejides before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Yejide
Heroine of Stay With Me.
2017 novel

Names connected to Yejide.

The number behind Yejide.

4

The Builder

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