Kayodé
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kayodé is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: He brought joy.
- GYGuyana1 in 54K(measured from records)
- BJBenin≈1 in 177K
- SESweden1 in 329K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
786 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kayode in US United States, BJ Benin.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)He brought joy.
Cited for this meaning 3
- A Handbook of African Names
- The African book of names
- The book of African names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kayodé 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.
786 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kayodé mean, and where does it come from?
- He brought joy. Recorded by A Handbook of African Names and The African book of names and 1 other source.
- Is Kayodé a male or female name?
- Kayodé 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.
- In which country does Kayodé have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 786 people named Kayodé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kayode.
- Where is Kayodé most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kayodé is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 54 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kayodé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 786 people named Kayodé in 2020, about 1 in 423 thousand residents.
- How common is Kayodé compared with other names?
- In Benin, Kayodé is the 623rd most common given name of 2,017 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kayod%C3%A9The 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, “Kayodé” — the 623rd most common given name in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.