Entry № 11769 · Yoruba origin

Yetunde Yetunde — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yeh-TOON-day /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Mother has returned"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Yoruba)

A name that means "mother has returned".

Yetunde is a Yoruba (Nigerian) name meaning "mother has returned" — traditionally given to a daughter born after the death of her mother or grandmother, expressing the belief that the soul has returned through the new child.

Mother has returned. The Yoruba name of returning souls.

The name in its native script.

Yetunde
Transliteration
Yetunde
Pronunciation
/ jəˈtuːn.deɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yetunde stands.

Yetunde 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.

Yetundes before her.

Real people
Yetunde Price
Older sister of Venus and Serena Williams.
1972 – 2003
In fiction

Names connected to Yetunde.

The number behind Yetunde.

4

The Builder

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