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
Grammatical form

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

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.