Entry № 7816 · Igbo origin

Onyinye Onyinye — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ oh-NYIN-yeh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Igbo
Meaning
"Gift (Igbo)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Igbo)

A name that means "gift (igbo)".

Onyinye combines the Igbo onyinye (gift) — "a gift, that which is given." A celebratory Igbo feminine name expressing the child as a divine gift.

Used widely in Nigeria.

Gift. The Igbo.

The name in its native script.

Onyinye
Transliteration
Onyinye
Pronunciation
/ oʊˈnjɪn.jɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Onyinye stands.

Onyinye 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.

Onyinyes before her.

Real people
Onyinye Onwugbenu
Nigerian designer-entrepreneur.
In fiction

Names connected to Onyinye.

The number behind Onyinye.

8

The Visionary

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