Entry № 11727 · Yoruba origin

Yewa Yewa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YEH-wah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Orisha of the river Yewa"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "orisha of the river yewa".

Yewa is the Yoruba orisha of the river that bears her name, a goddess of purity, grace and modesty.

Gentle and serene, her name flows like clear water.

Orisha of the river Yewa — a Yoruba name.

The name in its native script.

Yewa
Transliteration
Yewa
Pronunciation
/ ˈje.wa /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yewa stands.

Yewa 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.

Yewas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Yewa.

The number behind Yewa.

9

The Giver

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