Entry № 3017 · Other origin

Enitan Enitan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ eh-NEE-tahn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Person of story (Yoruba + Sefi Atta)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "person of story (yoruba + sefi atta)".

Enitan is from Eníìtàn.

Person of story (Yoruba + Sefi Atta).

The name in its native script.

Eníìtàn
Transliteration
Eníìtàn
Pronunciation
/ ɛˈniː.tæn /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Enitan stands.

Enitan 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.

Enitans before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Sefi Atta Everything Good Will Come
Central character Enitan Taiwo in Sefi Attas Nigerian novel 2005 + Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa 2006
Nigerian literature

Names connected to Enitan.

The number behind Enitan.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Enitan reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.