Ijeoma

given name · English · Latin script

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

Ijeoma is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 63rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A good journey.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria1 in 946◐
  • USUnited States1 in 288K
  • MTMalta1 in 18K

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

≈1.2K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
219 ●

127K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 175K ◐

Iceland

Meaning & origin●

A good journey

Sources 1

  • The book of African names

Where in the world●

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

Where Ijeoma is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria#6376,979118K rec.—listedIjeoma111
US United States—1,1556.9K rec.1 in 288K1.2KIjeoma219
GB United Kingdom—942530 rec.—listedIjeoma66
CA Canada—184178 rec.——Ijeoma44
AU Australia—103108 rec.—1Ijeoma27
ZA South Africa—96113 rec.——Ijeoma11
KE Kenya—628 rec.——Ijeoma6
DE Germany—6051 rec.——Ijeoma29
JM Jamaica—4445 rec.——Ijeoma2
SE Sweden—43△13 rec.1 in 237K43—6
MT Malta#14138254 rec.——Ijeoma1
PL Poland—22△1 rec.1 in 1.7M22—1

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

Languages●

  • English65K73%
  • Swahili16K18%
  • German3K3%
  • Sinhala8071%
  • Spanish7181%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English65,03473%
Swahili15,60318%
German2,9503%
Sinhala8071%
Spanish7181%

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

Other names spelled this way◐

Ijeoma is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name2.1K records spelled Ijeoma5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, France, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, French, Romanian

    Also written Ijéoma

  • Croatian given name80 records spelled Ijeoma6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States

    Also written Ијеома

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

051015201970198019902000201020 · 1980

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Ijeoma in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1967–2019
Yearrecords
19675
19725
19735
19746
19769
19778
19789
197911
198020
198115
198212
198314
198415
198510
198612
198717
198811
19899
199015
199118
19929
199312
199414
199515
199612
199710
199815
199912
200020
200116
20029
20038
20048
200511
200611
200712
20085
201014
20116
20125
20136
201411
20155
20165
20176
20198

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 46 years between 1967–2019. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

196019802000Ijeoma Uchegbu, b. 1960Ijeoma Nwaogwugwu, b. 1966Ijeoma Oluo, b. 1980Ijeoma Egbunine, b. 1980Ijeoma Obi, b. 1985Ijeoma Queenth Daniels, b. 1992Ijeoma Ajemba, b. 1995

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 26 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Ijeoma
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#11,023
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—43#15,107
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#16,432
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202026#11,023
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—22#18,344
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202622#1,733
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200020—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198020—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199118—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198717—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200116—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#34,848

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 · 94 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ijeoma?
We estimate roughly 1.2 thousand people bear Ijeoma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Ijeoma have the most bearers?
Ijeoma is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled ijeoma.
How common is Ijeoma compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Ijeoma is the 63rd most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
Is Ijeoma a male or female name?
Ijeoma 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.
What does the name Ijeoma mean?
Recorded meaning: A good journey
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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, “Ijeoma” — the 63rd most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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