Entry № 142 · Yoruba origin

Adesewa Adesewa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-deh-SEH-wah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Crown of beauty (Yoruba royal name)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Yoruba)

A name that means "crown of beauty (yoruba royal name)".

Adesewa is from the Yoruba adé (crown) + sé (do) + ẹwà (beauty) — the crown does beauty / crown of beauty. Adesewa is one of the Yoruba royal-honorific feminine names alongside Adeola, Adejoke, Adesua, Adetoun, and Adekemi — all variations of adé (crown) compound names expressing royal lineage. The name appears across modern Nigerian, Ghanaian, and Yoruba diaspora communities. royal-prefix Yoruba naming convention.

Crown of beauty (Yoruba).

The name in its native script.

Adésẹ́wà
Transliteration
Adésẹ́wà
Pronunciation
/ ɑːˈdeɪ.sɛ.wə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Adesewa stands.

Adesewa 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.

Adesewas before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Adesewa
Yoruba crown of beauty.

Names connected to Adesewa.

The number behind Adesewa.

4

The Builder

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