Bukola

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bukola is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 90th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria1 in 1.1K◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 204K
  • USUnited States1 in 686K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈507 ●

across 5 countries

Sources
154 ●

89K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 175K ◐

Iceland

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Bukola is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria#9063,39585K rec.——Bukola104
GB United Kingdom—1,014550 rec.——Bukola80
US United States—4852.9K rec.1 in 686K485Bukola154
CA Canada—149144 rec.——Bukola48
KE Kenya—1031 rec.——Bukola2
FR France—8993 rec.——Bukola32
AU Australia—7276 rec.——Bukola20
ZA South Africa—5956 rec.——Bukola10
IE Ireland—5623 rec.——Bukola18
ES Spain—4142 rec.——Bukola15
FI Finland—371 rec.—22Bukola1
DE Germany—1718 rec.——Bukola12

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English52K75%
  • Swahili9.4K13%
  • Amharic1.3K2%
  • Indonesian9181%
  • Hindi7311%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English52,39075%
Swahili9,41413%
Amharic1,2632%
Indonesian9181%
Hindi7311%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Bukola Bakreen, b. 1950Bukola Saraki, b. 1962Bukola Oriola, b. 1976Bouqui, b. 1979Aṣa, b. 1982Bukola Adeeyo, b. 1989Bukola Abogunloko, b. 1994
  • Bukola Bakreenb. 1950NGbadminton player
  • Bukola Sarakib. 1962NGNigerian politician, Waziri of Ilorin, senate president of the federal republic of Nigeria 2015-2019
  • Bukola Oriolab. 1976USNigerian activist and journalist
  • Bouquib. 1979NGnot in their usual namemusical artist
  • Aṣab. 1982FRnot in their usual nameNigerian-French singer, songwriter, stage performer and recording artist
  • Bukola Adeeyob. 1989NGNigerian film actress, brand ambassador, producer and model
  • Bukola Abogunlokob. 1994NGNigerian sprinter
  • Bukola WalfallCAactress
  • Adebukola BanjokoNGnot in their usual nameNigerian judge
  • Bukky OgunnoteNGnot in their usual nameNigerian actress and TV personality

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 10 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Bukola
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020485#19,953
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202038#19,953
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—22#24,426
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#32,895
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—14#29,914
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5#10,928
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20265#10,929
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—4#28,112
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)20262#10,233
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251#593
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)———

Reference works 1

  • 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 · 11 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bukola?
We estimate roughly 507 people bear Bukola (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Bukola have the most bearers?
Bukola is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled bukola.
How common is Bukola compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Bukola is the 90th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
Is Bukola a male or female name?
Bukola is a female 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.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Bukola” — the 90th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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