Yoruba reincarnation is lineage-bound and the naming practice makes it explicit. Babatunde means father has returned; Yetunde or Iyabo, mother has returned; Babatunji, father wakes again. Divination at or before the naming ceremony frequently identifies which ancestor has come back, and the child may be treated accordingly, with the returning ancestor's preferences respected. What is distinctive is the limit: the return is understood to happen within the family, not across species and not into a distant stranger, and the ancestor is also simultaneously still an ancestor — the logic is not a soul moving from one body to the next but something closer to a lineage renewing itself. Diaspora traditions have retained the naming practice and sometimes shifted the doctrine, and Yoruba Christians and Muslims frequently still use the names without holding the belief, which is a good illustration of how much of the tradition now survives as practice detached from doctrine.