Femitayo as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Femitayo

What is the meaning of the name Femitayo ?

The baby name Femitayo is a Unisex name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced feh-MEE-tah-yoh.

Femitayo is Yoruba in Origin.

Femitayo is a Yoruba given name from southwestern Nigeria. In Yoruba orthography it is Fẹ́mitáyọ̀, combining fẹ́ mi (“love me” or “cherish me”) with táyọ̀ (“worthy of joy” or “sufficient for joy”). The combined sense is often rendered as “Love me and rejoice” or “Beloved who brings joy.” The name is unisex, though it leans masculine in some families, and sits within a broader Yoruba tradition of meaningful, sentence-like names expressing gratitude, hope, or circumstances of birth.

As a standalone it is modern but built from long‑standing elements, and it also appears as a shortened form of theophoric or honorific compounds such as Oluwafẹ́mitáyọ̀/Olúfẹ́mitáyọ̀ (“the Lord loves me; there is joy”) and Adẹfẹ́mitáyọ̀ (“the crown loves me; there is joy”). Variant spellings omit diacritics (Femitayo); nicknames and cognates include Fẹ́mi (Femi), Táyọ̀ (Tayo), Olúfẹ́mi/Olufemi, Adéfẹ́mi/Adefemi, and Oluwatayo.

⚙ We can't find Femitayo in any of the birth registries or name datasets we track. That's typically a sign of a rare name, a regional or traditional one, or a modern coinage. By any reading, it's an exceptionally uncommon choice.