Adekunle
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Adekunle is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 51st most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- NGNigeria1 in 816◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 101K
- USUnited States1 in 447K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈801 ●
- Sources
- 198 ●
- 1 in 328K ◐
across 6 countries
120K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #51 | 89,302 | 109K rec. | — | listed | Adekunle | 133 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,048 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Adekunle | 96 |
| KE Kenya | — | 781 | 0 rec. | — | — | Adekunle | 2 |
| US United States | — | 744 | 7.8K rec. | 1 in 447K | 744 | Adekunle | 198 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 207 | 242 rec. | — | — | Adekunle | 26 |
| CA Canada | — | 131 | 206 rec. | — | — | Adekunle | 45 |
| AU Australia | — | 128 | 164 rec. | — | — | Adekunle | 28 |
| IE Ireland | — | 63 | 44 rec. | — | — | Adekunle | 18 |
| DE Germany | — | 61 | 148 rec. | — | listed | Adekunle | 46 |
| MT Malta | #134 | 40 | 556 rec. | — | — | Adekunle | 3 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 29 | 47 rec. | — | — | Adekunle | 16 |
| EG Egypt | — | 26 | 18 rec. | — | — | Adekunle | 7 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English93K86%
- Swahili8.1K8%
- Hindi1.1K1%
- Arabic1.1K1%
- Indonesian8011%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 93,318 | 86% |
| Swahili | 8,149 | 8% |
| Hindi | 1,136 | 1% |
| Arabic | 1,110 | 1% |
| Indonesian | 801 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1985 | 7 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1993 | 11 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1996 | 8 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2017 | 8 |
| 2019 | 6 |
| 2022 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 12 years between 1981–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Adekunle Adesojib. 1901NGNigerian paralympic sprinter
- Adekunle Fajuyib. 1926NGNigerian politician (1926–1966)
- Adekunle Lawalb. 1934NGNigerian politician (1934–1980)
- Adekunle Abdulkabir Akinladeb. 1969NGpolitician
- Adekunle Ajayib. 1974NGNigerian professor and consultant physician
- Babatunde Luqmon Adekunleb. 1984NGNigerian footballer
- Adekunle Goldb. 1987NGNigerian singer
- Adeleke Adekunleb. 2002NGNigerian footballer
- L.A. Salamib. 2010GBnot in their usual nameBritish blues-rock singer-songwriter based in London
- Adekunle AdejuyigbeNGNigerian Film Maker, and Producer
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 25 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 40 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Adekunle?
- We estimate roughly 801 people bear Adekunle (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Adekunle have the most bearers?
- Adekunle is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled adekunle.
- How common is Adekunle compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Adekunle is the 51st most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
- Is Adekunle a male or female name?
- Adekunle is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
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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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Adekunle” — the 51st most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.