Correct spelling is '''Ayọ''' - in the Yoruba language ''ayọ'' means ''joyful'' and ''ayo'' means ''onion''. The last character is a "small letter o with dot below", [http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1ecd/index.htm|unicode character U+1ECD], a character from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Nigerian_Alphabet|Pan-Nigerian Alphabet] as used in the Yoruba language. This is sometimes also written as '''Ayo.''' (that is a simple small letter o followed by a trailing dot).