Entry № 11757 · Yoruba origin

Yemoja Yemoja — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yeh-MOH-jah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Mother goddess of the ocean"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "mother goddess of the ocean".

Yemoja is the Yoruba mother goddess of the ocean and of motherhood — her name means mother of the fishes.

Vast and nurturing, she is one of the most beloved of all the orishas.

Mother goddess of the ocean — a Yoruba name.

The name in its native script.

Yemoja
Transliteration
Yemoja
Pronunciation
/ jeˈmo.dʒa /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yemoja stands.

Yemoja 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.

Yemojas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Yemoja.

The number behind Yemoja.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yemoja reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.