Meaning: Its source is a Yoruba expression meaning "Has come to home."

Languages: This boy's name is used in Yoruba.

Narrative: This common Yoruba name is used as a short form for a number of longer names. Children named Olawole, Oyewole and Oluwole can be called Ola, Oye, Olu or simply Wole.

Oluwole, meaning ''God has come home,'' is one of the names of Wole Soyinka, the 1986 (and first African) winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.