Kayode

given name · English · Latin script

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

Kayode is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 85th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: He brought joy.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria1 in 1.1K◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 129K
  • USUnited States1 in 426K

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

≈927 ●

across 7 countries

Sources
193 ●

105K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 54K ◐

Guyana

Meaning & origin●

He brought joy

Sources 1

  • The book of African names

Where in the world●

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

Where Kayode is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria#8566,96595K rec.—listedKayode133
GB United Kingdom—1,6001.1K rec.—listedKayode102
US United States—7807.2K rec.1 in 426K780Kayode193
ZA South Africa—193202 rec.——Kayode21
KE Kenya—1821 rec.——Kayode2
CA Canada—162205 rec.——Kayode48
AU Australia—122133 rec.——Kayode24
DE Germany—8986 rec.—1Kayode35
BR Brazil—60△3 rec.1 in 3.5M60Kayode3
MT Malta#9159592 rec.——Kayode2
IE Ireland—4431 rec.——Kayode19
SE Sweden—31△6 rec.1 in 329K31—8

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

Languages●

  • English71K79%
  • Swahili9.5K11%
  • Hindi9571%
  • Japanese9211%
  • Indonesian8081%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English70,78179%
Swahili9,50911%
Hindi9571%
Japanese9211%
Indonesian8081%

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◐

Kayode is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name2.0K records spelled Kayode5 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kayodè, Kayodê, Kayodé

  • French given name813 records spelled Kayode2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Kayodé

  • a separate given name552 records spelled Kayode4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom, South Africa

    Also written Kayodé, Káyòdé, Káyọ̀dé

  • Arabic given name321 records spelled Kayode3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Kayodé

  • Russian given name155 records spelled Kayode7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Ukraine, Russia, United States

    Languages: Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian

    Also written Кайоде, Каиоде, Kayodê

  • Polish given name153 records spelled Kayode2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Nigeria, United Kingdom

    Also written Kayodé

40 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●

0510151980199020002010202011 · 2022

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Kayode in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1973–2025
Yearrecords
19735
19745
197710
19795
19816
19825
19895
19907
19946
19965
19986
20005
20018
20025
20036
200410
20057
20096
20105
20125
20137
20156
20168
20179
20187
202010
20216
202211
20236
20246
20255

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 31 years between 1973–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1970198019902000Kayode Peters, b. 1975Kayode Akinsanya, b. 1976Kayode Odejayi, b. 1982Lateef Kayode, b. 1983Kayode Kasum, b. 1992Kayode Ewumi, b. 1993

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 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Kayode
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020780#14,844
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020383#57,414
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010152#115,034
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202260—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—60#58,763
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—51#7,958
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—31#18,822
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#16,709
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—26#164,002
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—25#44,209
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—20#5,960
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202620#6,435

Reference works 2

  • 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 · 73 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kayode?
We estimate roughly 927 people bear Kayode (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Kayode have the most bearers?
Kayode is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled kayode.
How common is Kayode compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Kayode is the 85th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
Is Kayode a male or female name?
Kayode 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 Kayode mean?
Recorded meaning: He brought joy
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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, “Kayode” — the 85th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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