Entry № 148 · Other origin

Adeyemi Adeyemi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-deh-YEH-mee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Crown is worthy (Yoruba + Tomi Adeyemi Children of Blood and Bone)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Yoruba)

A name that means "crown is worthy (yoruba + tomi adeyemi children of blood and bone)".

Adeyemi is from the Yoruba Adéyẹmí — Adé (crown) + yẹ (becomes/befits) + mí (me) — the crown is worthy of me, I am worthy of the crown. Adeyemi is one of the Yoruba feminine names — central to traditional Nigerian + West African heritage.

Crown is worthy (Yoruba).

The name in its native script.

Adéyẹmí
Transliteration
Adéyẹmí
Pronunciation
/ ɑːdɛˈjɛ.mi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Adeyemi stands.

Adeyemi 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.

Adeyemis before her.

Real people
Tomi Adeyemi
Nigerian-American author + Legacy of Orïsha fantasy trilogy + Children of Blood and Bone 2018 #1 NYT bestseller + based on Yoruba mythology + Andre Norton Award 2018 + Hugo nominee + Children of Virtue and Vengeance 2019.
born 1993
In fiction
Yoruba Orïsha pantheon
~400+ Orïshas + Ogun + Yemoja + Oshun + Shango + Obatala + Eshu + Ifa divination UNESCO 2008 + Oyo Empire 1300-1896 + Ife Kingdom + ~50 million Yoruba speakers.
Yoruba religion

Names connected to Adeyemi.

The number behind Adeyemi.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Adeyemi reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.