Foluke
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Placed in God's care
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɔɫuk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Foluke is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M
- MTMalta≈1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Placed in God's care
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Foluke counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #633 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | listed | Foluke | 61 |
| US United States | — | 199 | 1 in 1.7M | 179 | Foluke | 153 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 435K | — | Foluke | 67 |
| MT Malta | #316 | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Foluke | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Foluke | 21 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 485K | — | Foluke | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the african-book-names-hodari-2003 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Foluke 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 God's hands
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Foluke Adeboyeb. 1948NGNigerian Pastor, wife of General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God
- Foluke Daramolab. 1978NGNigerian actress and singer
- Foluke Akinradewob. 1987CAAmerican volleyball player
- Foluke UnuabonahNGNigerian Professor
- Foluke DareNGon-air personality
- Foluke MichaelNGNigerian entrepreneur and climate activist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 179 | #38,539 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 20 | #38,539 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 5 | — |
| NG Nigeria | The African Book of Names (Hodari, 2003) | — | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | A Handbook of African Names (Asante, 1976) | — | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | naija-faker — Nigerian Given Names by Ethnicity (Hausa/Igbo/Yoruba) | — | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | Nigerian names by ethnicity (naijafaker, MIT) | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Foluke mean, and where does it come from?
- Placed in God's care Recorded by The book of African names.
- How do you pronounce Foluke?
- A machine transcription gives /fɔɫuk/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Foluke a male or female name?
- Foluke 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.
- In which country does Foluke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Foluke in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled foluke.
- How common is the name Foluke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 199 people named Foluke in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Foluke compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Foluke is the 633rd most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Foluke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/folukeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Foluke” — the 633rd most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.