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Boitumelo Boitumelo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ boi-too-MEH-loh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Joy"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern (Tswana)

A name that means "joy".

Boitumelo is from the Tswana / Sotho Boitumelo — joy, happiness (from itumela — to rejoice). Boitumelo is one of the Tswana + Sotho feminine names — central to traditional Southern African Bantu Indigenous heritage spanning Botswana + Lesotho + South Africa (Free State + North West + Gauteng provinces).

Joy.

The name in its native script.

Boitumelo
Transliteration
Boitumelo
Pronunciation
/ bɔɪ.tuːˈmɛ.loʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Boitumelo stands.

Boitumelo 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.

Boitumelos before her.

Real people

In fiction
Boitumelo
Tswana-Sotho joy.

Names connected to Boitumelo.

The number behind Boitumelo.

4

The Builder

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