Tayo is a ♀ girl’s name and a ♂ boy’s name. Tayo thus belongs to the gender-neutral unisex names.
Tayo is a Nigerian name unisex name form the Yoruba people and is considered a short form of names ending in “-tayo”, e.g. Olatayo or Omotayo. Besides, Tayo is a Japanese girl’s name.
Tayo means “worth joy” or “boy full of happiness” (from Yoruba “tò” = is worth/sufficient for + “ayọ̀ “ = happiness/joy). The female name Tayo is a combination of Japanese “ta” (多) meaning “many”, “multi” or “much” and “yo” (世) meaning “world” or “generation”.
Tayo can also be spelled Taio, Tajo, Thaio or Thayo. An anagram for Tayo is Toya.
Possible nicknames for Tayo are Tay, TayTay and Yo.
First names that also start with Tay are Taycan, Tayeb, Tayfur, Taygan, Taygun, Taylan, Tayler, Taylon, Taylor, Taymaz, Taymo, Tayor, Tayson, Tayta, Tayyar and Tayyip.
On the French colonized island New Caledonia there is a Creole language named Tayo. It is only spoken in the St. Louis community by approximately 2000 people. The language developed around 1870 when French prisoners where sent there to produce sugar and rum.
The name Tayo is ranked #2437 overall.
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