Abiodun
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A name with Yoruba origin meaning 'born on a festival'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/abʲiɔdun/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Abiodun is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 407(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 47K
- USUnited States1 in 268K
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
- 222 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 407 (inferred from the name graph)
≈530,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A name with Yoruba origin meaning 'born on a festival'
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Abiodun 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 | #26 | ≈530,000 est. | ≈1 in 407 | listed | Abiodun | 148 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 47K | listed | Abiodun | 147 |
| US United States | — | 1,243 | 1 in 268K | 903 | Abiodun | 222 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Abiodun | 29 |
| MT Malta | #28 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Abiodun | 4 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | — | 9 |
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; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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)
Abiodun is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Born at the time of a festival
as a nameThe book of African names
Bom at the time of war
as a nameA Handbook of African Names
Born during a
as a nameThe African book of 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)
- J. Abiodun Adetiloyeb. 1929NGAnglican archbishop of Nigeria (1929–2012)
- Abiodun Oyewoleb. 1948USAmerican musician
- Dapo Abiodunb. 1960NGNigerian politician
- Abiodun Williamsb. 1961SLSierra Leonean political scientist
- Biodun Oyebanjib. 1967NGnot in their usual nameEkiti State Governor / Nigerian Politician
- Abiodun Baruwab. 1974NGNigerian footballer
- Abiodun Oyepitanb. 1979GBEnglish sprinter
- Abiodun Koyab. 1980NGNigerian gospel singer, opera singer, actress, songwriter and poet
- Abiodun Agunbiadeb. 1983NGfootball player
- Dennis Adeniranb. 1999GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player
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 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 903 | #10,619 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 340 | #10,619 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 6 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2008 | — | — |
| 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 | naija-faker — Nigerian Given Names by Ethnicity (Hausa/Igbo/Yoruba) | — | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | Nigerian names by ethnicity (naijafaker, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Abiodun mean, and where does it come from?
- A name with Yoruba origin meaning 'born on a festival' Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Abiodun?
- A machine transcription gives /abʲiɔdun/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Abiodun a male or female name?
- Abiodun 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 Abiodun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 526 thousand people named Abiodun in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abiodun.
- How common is the name Abiodun?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,243 people named Abiodun in 2020, about 1 in 268 thousand residents.
- How common is Abiodun compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Abiodun is the 26th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Abiodun?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abiodunThe 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, “Abiodun” — the 26th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.