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Meaning: [This is] enough for my honour.

Meaning: The crown becomes a person.

Meaning: I make this (child) my relative in a town where I have none.

Meaning: The Lord has given me worth.

Meaning: Our lord has lifted me to prominence/worthiness.

Meaning: Water is honour.

Meaning: I am the child of/owned by "I am that I am or I am".

Meaning: Ifá has grown a stomach (to keep secrets).

Meaning: Ferry me into honour.

Meaning: God is enough for me as value.

Meaning: Sweet Home/The House of Honey/Beehive.

Meaning: God comforted me. God strengthened me. God took care of me.

Meaning: Permit me to have character.

Meaning: God holds my hands.

Meaning: With God, I can always count on joy. Joy is established for me with God.

Meaning: My wealth has ancestry.

Meaning: 1. The wolf is brave 2. Valor of the wolf 3. Brave Wolf 4. Valiant Wolf

Meaning: Hold (onto) me. (See: Olúwadáminí)

Meaning: Mine only.

Meaning: Give me honour.

Meaning: The guide.

Meaning: Valor is finished.

Meaning: The initiate praises Ifá.

Meaning: Nobility never finishes.

Meaning: Wealth is not finished.

Meaning: The wealth of god never finishes.

Meaning: The Àgbé divinity is worth worshiping.

Meaning: The worship of the Ìjá divinity has become prosperous.

Meaning: Wealth does not finish.

Meaning: The Ìjá divinity became influential.

Meaning: Fighting is finished.

Meaning: A shortened form of Ọláìítán: wealth never finishes.

Meaning: The Oṣó divinity washed me clean.

Meaning: Another way of writing Alápini. [meaning unknown]

Meaning: The crown is proper (or properly acquired/administered).

Meaning: The (head of the) Ọṣìn divinity has met the oracle

Meaning: The Ìjá divinity is worth value. [verification needed]

Meaning: The (head of the) Ọṣìn divinity has returned from a journey.

Meaning: The Àgbé divinity benefits us.

Meaning: The divinity of rain emerged in (our) honour.

Meaning: The Àgbé divinity is worth value.

Meaning: The worship of the Àgbé divinity is consoling.

Meaning: I thought honour had finished.

Meaning: Success does not finish. [verification needed].

Meaning: The Èlé divinity praises me.

Meaning: One who was birth when it's raining.

Meaning: Born before title/rank. Born in the anticipation of gaining a title/rank.

Meaning: The Àgbé divinity is sweet.

Meaning: Among cuban practitioners of yorùbá-based religious tradition, the belief is that it means "the most beautiful crown of Obatala." In Yorùbá language of Nigeria, the closest cognate would be "Kó̩lárìn." It means "walks with wealth/nobility." For an initiate of the deity O̩bàtálá, the unabridged name can be "Òòs̩ákó̩lárìn" meaning "Òòs̩àálá gathers and walks about with nobility/honor." This is the version in Yorùbáland.

Meaning: Among practitioners of Cuban Òrìṣà tradition known as Santería (Lucumí), the belief is that it means "the wandering prince." It is a name typically given to Ọbàtálá initiates in the Yorùbá-based religious tradition of Cuba.

Meaning: Among practitioners of Cuban Òrìṣà tradition, the Yorùbá-based religious tradition that developed in the island of Cuba, the name Ala Iña is said by practitioners to mean "the mantle of fire (from the core of the earth)." It is a name given to initiates of Santería/Lucumí. The name is derived from the Yorùbá name "O̩láníyan," which, in Yorùbá language, means "wealth/nobility has a proud gait/swagger." In Yorùbá culture it is given to a newborn as a result of a birth within nobility.

Meaning: Among the practitioners of Cuban Òrìs̩à tradition, Oñí Ocán is said to mean " heart of honey or sweetness." It is a name typically given to the initiates of Ochún/Oshún (Ò̩s̩un in Yorùbá language) This name is derived from the Yorùbá name "Oyínkán," which is the abbreviation of either "Oyínkánsádé" (honey dripped onto the crown - of our royal lineage) or "Oyínkánsó̩lá" (honey dripped onto wealth/nobility).

Meaning: For practitioners of Cuban òrìs̩à tradition, which is the Yorùbá-based religious tradition that developed in Cuba, Ochún Miguá is said to mean "Oshún (a Yorùbá river deity) brought this one in her arms." It is used within the Cuban òrìṣà community as a possible name for initiates of that goddess. The equivalent Yorùbá name in West Africa is "Ò̩s̩únmúyìíwá," which means "Ò̩s̩un (a Yorùbá river deity) brought this one."

Meaning: In cuban usage, the meaning they give it is "witness of the itá." (Itá is what cuban orisa devotees refer to the divination with 16 cowries shells on the 3rd day of an orisa initiation.) This name is derived from Fèyís̩ìtàn (alternately "Fèyís̩ètàn"), short for "Olúfèyís̩ètàn," meaning "The head of the household used this one to make memorable history."

Meaning: Ifá would not let honour finish.

Meaning: Ifá priest/initiate has gone home.

Meaning: One that holds the Eégún's whip. Like an Eégún priest in training

Meaning: We (now) have an Ifa initiate/priest in our home/family.

Meaning: (Being an) initiate has become a position (of honour).

Meaning: Ifá initiates have notability, success.

Meaning: Ifá priest/initiate gives thanks (for the child or the circumstances surrounding the birth).

Meaning: An Ifá initiate/priest has detoured (born into our home).

Meaning: (Being an) awo initiate is hereditary.

Meaning: The (head of the) Ọṣìn divinity has brought peace.

Meaning: The rain (divinity) met a festival in progress.

Meaning: One born during the rain or raining season.

Meaning: There's wealth remaining that has arrived.

Meaning: (My) wealth doesn't finish.

Meaning: The world is infinite.

Meaning: Names have finished. An abiku name.

Meaning: In Cuban Orisa religion known as Lucumí religion or Santería (Regla de Ocha), the meaning they give is “the coronation (as in initiation of a novice into) the deity Oya. The original Yoruba language name that it is derived from is O̩ló̩yadé - the O̩ya priest has arrived (the owner of O̩ya has arrived)

Meaning: This name is rather common among initiates of Cuban Orisa religion known as Regla de Ocha/Santería/Lucumí religion. They have given various theories as to its meaning, including “someone who has both Oshun (Ọ̀ṣun) and Elegguá (Ẹlẹ́gbáa) deities.” This name is derived from Ọ̀ṣúntiléwá or Ọ̀ṣúnlátiléwá - Ọ̀ṣun has come from home

Meaning: The initiates have become two.

Meaning: I am at peace. I have peace. I am definitely without trouble or chaos.

Meaning: The crown [as a symbol of nobility] is not unified, i.e. cannot be monopolized. [See below for more explanation]

Meaning: 1. The head. 2. The prominent one. 3. The lord. 4. God (olúwa) 5. The hero/champion

Meaning: The king has returned from a journey.

Meaning: 1. I'm related to the sorcerer (or "Òrìṣà Oko". See below). 2. See "Extra information about this name" for other meaning and variants.

Meaning: The rains are here.

Meaning: A gathering of Alara's people.

Meaning: Help me get honourable.

Meaning: Born to be pampered.

Meaning: We begged to have (this one).

Meaning: In Cuban usage, the belief is that it means "the ears of Obatala." In Yorùbá language, Iwínlétí means "the forest spirit/fairy (O̩bàtálá) has ears (listens to petitions)"

Meaning: Among cuban practitioners of Yoruba spiritual tradition, the belief is that the name means "the crown of the dead." In Yorùbá language of west Africa, the name "Adégún" means "the crown is symmetrical/in good order." Names with the word "adé" (crown) may, at times, be given to those born into royal lineages.

Meaning: Among practitioners of Cuban Òrìsà tradition/remnants of Yorùbá culture in Cuba, the belief is that it means "the mantle of the prince." In fact, this is derived from the Yorùbá name "Odùo̩lá" which means "Odù of wealth." Depending on context, Odù may refer to Orisa Odù, the deity who is the principal wife of the Ọ̀rúnmìlà. But it is also a name given primarily to devotees and priests of Òrìṣà Odùduwà, ancestral father of the Yorùbá nation.

Meaning: This is my purity (chalk).

Meaning: Among the practitioners of Cuban òrìs̩à tradition, the name is said to mean "the coronation of Ochún/Oshún" (Ò̩s̩un in Yorùbá language). In the Yoruba language of west Africa, the name "O̩ló̩sundé" means "the priest of Ò̩s̩un has arrived. " Ò̩s̩un is a female yorùbá water deity.

Meaning: Among practitioners of Cuban Òrìṣà tradition, Omi Saide is said to mean "the crown of water." In actuality, the cuban orisa name Omí Saidé is derived from the Yorùbá name Omísè̩hìndè. It means "water remained after (as replacement)." Omi (water) is a prefix used for a number of names for devotees of Yorùbá river deities such as Yemo̩ja, Erinlè̩, etc. The name can suggest a series of abiku or still births where intervention by one of the water deities prevented further child deaths. It can also mean that after a series of only girls that a boy was born at long last. An alternate version of this name is Omísè̩hìndé, meaning "water has arrived finally." This suggests that after period of barrenness a baby arrived with the help of a water deity one paid devotion to.

Meaning: Sit with me (till old age).

Meaning: It is said among devotees within cuban òrìs̩à tradition that the name means "water and heart," or, alternately, "heart of water." In yoruba language, the name is derived from several possibilities. Ò̩kántò̩mí is the abbreviation of Ò̩kántò̩míwá or Ò̩kántò̩mídé, meaning "one (child) came directly to me" or "one (child) arrived directly to me." It can be used to refer to a child born after one has attended a festival for devotion to a yorùbá deity praying for assistance with fertility. Another possibility is Ò̩kántómi, meaning "one is enough for me." It suggests that the mother or parents gave birth to a single child after many failed attemps or infant deaths. (àbíkú)

Meaning: A young member of the Ọbàtálá family.