Entry № 1513 · Yoruba origin

Bisi Bisi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Born during a festival"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Yoruba)

A name that means "born during a festival".

Bisi is a Yoruba name — short for Bisola, Folabisi, or similar names containing "-bisi," referring to being born during a festival or celebration.

Bisi Akande is the Nigerian politician; Bisi Alimi is the Nigerian LGBT rights activist.

Born during a festival. The Yoruba celebration.

The name in its native script.

Bisi
Transliteration
Bisi
Pronunciation
/ ˈbiː.si /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bisi stands.

Bisi 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.

Bisis before her.

Real people
Bisi Akande
Nigerian politician.
born 1939
In fiction
Bisi
Common in Yoruba fiction.

Names connected to Bisi.

The number behind Bisi.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bisi reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.