Entry № 3408 · Yoruba origin

Folake Folake — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ fo-LAH-keh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Honor and care for her"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Yoruba)

A name that means "honor and care for her".

Folake is a Yoruba name meaning "handle with honor" or "honor and care for her" — a wish for the child's gentle treatment.

Folake Akindele is a Nigerian fashion designer.

Handle with honor. The Yoruba blessing.

The name in its native script.

Folake
Transliteration
Folake
Pronunciation
/ fɒˈlɑː.kɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Folake stands.

Folake 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.

Folakes before her.

Real people
Folake Akindele
Nigerian fashion designer.
In fiction
Folake
Common in Nollywood films.

Names connected to Folake.

The number behind Folake.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Folake reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.