Entry № 11728 · Yoruba origin

Yewande Yewande — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yeh-WAHN-deh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Mother has returned (Yoruba)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Yoruba)

A name that means "mother has returned (yoruba)".

Yewande combines the Yoruba iye (mother) and wande (has come back) — "mother has returned." Given to a daughter believed to be the reincarnation of her paternal grandmother.

Yewande Biala (born 1995) is the Irish-Nigerian TV personality.

Mother has returned. The Yoruba reincarnation name.

The name in its native script.

Yewande
Transliteration
Yewande
Pronunciation
/ jəˈwɑːn.dɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yewande stands.

Yewande 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.

Yewandes before her.

Real people
Yewande Biala
Irish-Nigerian TV personality.
born 1995
In fiction
Yewande
Common in Nigerian fiction.

Names connected to Yewande.

The number behind Yewande.

5

The Seeker

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