Kehinde

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Kehinde is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 32nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Second bom of two twins.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria1 in 523◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 82K
  • USUnited States1 in 383K

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

≈956 ●

across 8 countries

Sources
221 ●

225K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 175K ◐

Iceland

Meaning & origin●

Second bom of two twins

Sources 1

  • A Handbook of African Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Kehinde is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria#32139,409211K rec.—listedKehinde136
GB United Kingdom—2,5161.6K rec.—listedKehinde118
US United States—8699.6K rec.1 in 383K869Kehinde221
KE Kenya—3192 rec.——Kehinde3
CA Canada—217260 rec.——Kehinde51
ZA South Africa—165160 rec.——Kehinde23
AU Australia—147176 rec.——Kehinde24
MT Malta#321151K rec.——Kehinde1
IE Ireland—8862 rec.——Kehinde20
DE Germany—7192 rec.——Kehinde33
SE Sweden—54△7 rec.1 in 189K54—10
BR Brazil—3714 rec.——Kehinde15

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

Languages●

  • English140K79%
  • Swahili18K10%
  • Amharic3.4K2%
  • Indonesian2.3K1%
  • Hindi1.9K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English139,58979%
Swahili18,26110%
Amharic3,4042%
Indonesian2,2841%
Hindi1,9131%

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◐

Kehinde is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name1.1K records spelled Kehinde5 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Kéhindé, Kehindé, Kẹ́hìndé

  • a separate given name809 records spelled Kehinde5 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Kẹ́hìndé, Kẹhìndé, Kẹhinde, Kéhìndé

  • Arabic given name660 records spelled Kehinde2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Kẹhìndé

49 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.

Other recorded senses●

Kehinde 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.

  • Second bom of twins

    as a nameA Handbook of African 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●

0510151980199020002010202011 · 2001

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Kehinde in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1977–2024
Yearrecords
19775
19785
19797
19805
19815
19826
19835
19857
19886
19907
19929
19938
19946
19955
19976
19986
19996
20005
200111
20037
20046
20056
20068
20085
20096
20105
20115
201411
20155
20177
20199
20215
20225
20245

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 34 years between 1977–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

196019802000Kehinde Kamson, b. 1961Kehinde Vaughan, b. 1961Kehinde Aladefa, b. 1974Kehinde Wiley, b. 1977Kehinde Olorunyomi, b. 1981Kehinde Fadipe, b. 1983Kehinde Andrews, b. 1983Kehinde Bankole, b. 1985Kehinde Fatai, b. 1990Kehinde Owoeye, 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 33 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Kehinde
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020869#8,615
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020809#8,615
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020392#56,329
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010197#93,125
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—54#12,945
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—35#13,424
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#15,482
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—12#22,834
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202612#9,332
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—12#109,635
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—11#9,224
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202011—

Reference works 4

  • 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
  • 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 · 107 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kehinde?
We estimate roughly 956 people bear Kehinde (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Kehinde have the most bearers?
Kehinde is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled kehinde.
How common is Kehinde compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Kehinde is the 32nd most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
Is Kehinde a male or female name?
Kehinde is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Kehinde mean?
Recorded meaning: Second bom of two twins
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About this data

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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, “Kehinde” — the 32nd most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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