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Character Name

Temi

Meaning — A Yoruba name meaning "mine" or "belongs to me", or a short form of Oluwatemi ("God is mine" or "the Lord belongs to me"). Used as an expression of personal closeness to the divine or, as a surname component, of possession and belonging.·Yoruba origin·Female·TEH-mee

Temi A name meaning "mine" or "belongs to me" carries an intimate, claiming quality — the bearer is someone's precious own. In fiction characters named Temi are often at the centre of intense relational dramas, fought over or claimed by competing loves and loyalties, their identity defined by the question of to whom — or to what — they ultimately belong.

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Contemporary FictionLiterary FictionComing-of-AgeRomance

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Variations & nicknames

TemiOluwatemi

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Temi AdeyemiTemi AdesanyaTemi FasholaTemi AlabiTemi Okonkwo

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