Entry № 3480 · Yoruba origin

Funmilayo Funmilayo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ fun-mee-LAH-yo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Give me joy"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Yoruba)

A name that means "give me joy".

Funmilayo is a Yoruba (Nigerian) name composed of fun mi ní ayọ̀ — meaning "give me joy." Used as a prayer of thanksgiving for the joy of childbirth.

The short forms Funmi and Layo are widely used.

Give me joy. The Yoruba prayer of thanksgiving.

The name in its native script.

Funmilayo
Transliteration
Funmilayo
Pronunciation
/ ˌfʊn.miˈlɑː.joʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Funmilayo stands.

Funmilayo 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.

Funmilayos before her.

Real people
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Nigerian women's rights activist, mother of Fela Kuti.
1900 – 1978
In fiction

Names connected to Funmilayo.

The number behind Funmilayo.

8

The Visionary

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