Entry № 11750 · Yoruba origin

Yejide Yejide — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yeh-JEE-day /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Image of the mother"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Yoruba)

A name that means "image of the mother".

Yejide is a Yoruba (Nigerian) name meaning "the image of the mother" or "the mother is here." Traditionally given to a daughter who resembles her grandmother or mother.

Yejide is the heroine of Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀'s acclaimed novel Stay With Me (2017).

Image of the mother — a Yoruba name.

The name in its native script.

Yejide
Transliteration
Yejide
Pronunciation
/ jəˈdʒiː.deɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yejide stands.

Yejide 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.

Yejides before her.

Real people

In fiction
Yejide
Heroine of Stay With Me.
2017 novel

Names connected to Yejide.

The number behind Yejide.

4

The Builder

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