Abiola
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Abiola is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria. In Guyana it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Child born during first of the New Year.
- NGNigeria1 in 1.4K◐
- GYGuyana1 in 1.7K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 84K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.4K ●
- Sources
- 228 ●
- 1 in 1.7K ◐
across 7 countries
83K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin●
Child born during first of the New Year
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #109 | 53,625 | 68K rec. | — | listed | Abiola | 124 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,453 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Abiola | 107 |
| US United States | — | 860 | 8.3K rec. | 1 in 387K | 860 | Abiola | 228 |
| GY Guyana | #12 | 450 | 1.9K rec. | 1 in 1.7K | 450 | Abiola | 9 |
| KE Kenya | — | 287 | 11 rec. | — | — | Abiola | 10 |
| CA Canada | — | 267 | 288 rec. | — | 1 | Abiola | 60 |
| AU Australia | — | 181 | 178 rec. | — | 1 | Abiola | 26 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 124 | 140 rec. | — | — | Abiola | 20 |
| MT Malta | #29 | 120 | 877 rec. | — | — | Abiola | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | 81 | 106 rec. | — | 1 | Abiola | 34 |
| IE Ireland | — | 79 | 43 rec. | — | — | Abiola | 26 |
| EG Egypt | — | 38 | 25 rec. | — | — | Abiola | 9 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English64K79%
- Swahili7.3K9%
- Spanish1.5K2%
- Arabic7791%
- Hindi7721%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 63,965 | 79% |
| Swahili | 7,256 | 9% |
| Spanish | 1,500 | 2% |
| Arabic | 779 | 1% |
| Hindi | 772 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Abiola is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Bom during the new yam festival (Yomba-
as a nameA Handbook of African Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1977 | 9 |
| 1978 | 7 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1988 | 9 |
| 1989 | 6 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1991 | 7 |
| 1992 | 8 |
| 1994 | 9 |
| 1997 | 7 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2005 | 6 |
| 2006 | 9 |
| 2008 | 6 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2015 | 6 |
| 2016 | 5 |
| 2018 | 13 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2023 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 30 years between 1977–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- F. Abiola Ireleb. 1936NGNigerian literary scholar, professor, and editor
- Abiola Odejideb. 1946NGNigerian academic
- Abiola Ajimobib. 1949NGNigerian politician, former Governor of Oyo State (1949–2020)
- Abiola Abramsb. 1976USAuthor, filmmaker, television personality
- Abiola Bashorunb. 1985NGNigerian beauty pageant contestant
- Abiola Ogunbiyib. 1990GBBritish actress and musician
- Abiola Onakoyab. 1990NGNigerian athlete
- Bella Shmurdab. 1997NGnot in their usual nameNigerian singer
- Andrew Omobamideleb. 2002IEnot in their usual nameIrish footballer (born 2002)
- Abiola SegunNGNigerian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 860 | #10,710 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 450 | #213 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 369 | #10,710 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 334 | #64,360 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 163 | #108,734 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 119 | #131,366 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 41 | #9,729 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 34 | #14,331 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 28 | #20,028 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 16 | #94,489 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 14 | #2,770 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 13 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 75 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Abiola?
- We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Abiola (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Abiola have the most bearers?
- Abiola is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled abiola.
- How common is Abiola compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Abiola is the 109th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
- Is Abiola a male or female name?
- Abiola is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Abiola mean?
- Recorded meaning: Child born during first of the New Year
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Abiola” — the 109th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.