Babatunde
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Babatunde is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 42nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Father comes again.
- NGNigeria1 in 662◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 57K
- USUnited States1 in 237K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.5K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 231 ●
- 1 in 237K ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
186K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Father comes again
Sources 1
- The book of African names
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 | #42 | 110,052 | 167K rec. | — | listed | Babatunde | 138 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,622 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Babatunde | 116 |
| US United States | — | 1,402 | 13K rec. | 1 in 237K | 1.4K | Babatunde | 231 |
| KE Kenya | — | 473 | 1 rec. | — | — | Babatunde | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 392 | 406 rec. | — | — | Babatunde | 21 |
| CA Canada | — | 244 | 334 rec. | — | — | Babatunde | 60 |
| AU Australia | — | 242 | 262 rec. | — | — | Babatunde | 31 |
| MT Malta | #22 | 139 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Babatunde | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | 128 | 158 rec. | — | 1 | Babatunde | 43 |
| IE Ireland | — | 99 | 47 rec. | — | — | Babatunde | 26 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 43 | 72 rec. | — | — | Babatunde | 19 |
| SE Sweden | — | 39△ | 11 rec. | 1 in 262K | 39 | — | 12 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English107K82%
- Swahili11K8%
- Arabic1.7K1%
- Hindi1.6K1%
- Indonesian1.2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 107,472 | 82% |
| Swahili | 11,024 | 8% |
| Arabic | 1,662 | 1% |
| Hindi | 1,594 | 1% |
| Indonesian | 1,243 | 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●
Babatunde 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.
In Yoruba, Yoruba (Nigeria): 'father has returned'
as a nameAfrican 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 |
|---|---|
| 1971 | 9 |
| 1972 | 10 |
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1974 | 8 |
| 1975 | 8 |
| 1976 | 11 |
| 1977 | 10 |
| 1978 | 14 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1983 | 13 |
| 1985 | 12 |
| 1986 | 7 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 10 |
| 1989 | 13 |
| 1990 | 12 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 18 |
| 1993 | 14 |
| 1995 | 20 |
| 1996 | 11 |
| 1997 | 8 |
| 1998 | 11 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2001 | 5 |
| 2002 | 8 |
| 2003 | 10 |
| 2004 | 7 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2007 | 8 |
| 2008 | 7 |
| 2009 | 6 |
| 2010 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 37 years between 1971–2010. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Babatunde Elegbedeb. 1939NGNigerian politician and admiral
- Babatunde Lawalb. 1942NGNigerian art historian
- Babatunde Osotimehinb. 1949NGHealth minister of Nigeria (1949-2017)
- Babatunde Ogunnaikeb. 1956NGAmerican chemist
- Babatunde Omidinab. 1958NGNigerian actor and comedian
- Babatunde Fasholab. 1963NGNigerian politician
- Babatunde Omotobab. 1969NGNigerian politician
- Tunde Adebimpeb. 1975USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician
- Babatunde Aiyegbusib. 1988PLPolish professional wrestler and American football player (born 1989)
- Babatunde Olumuyiwab. 1992SLSierra Leonean basketball player
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 40 sources across 21 countries.
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 · 103 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Babatunde?
- We estimate roughly 1.5 thousand people bear Babatunde (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Babatunde have the most bearers?
- Babatunde is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled babatunde.
- How common is Babatunde compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Babatunde is the 42nd most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
- Is Babatunde a male or female name?
- Babatunde 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.
- What does the name Babatunde mean?
- Recorded meaning: Father comes again
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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, “Babatunde” — the 42nd most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.