Adekunle
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eɪdkunɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Adekunle is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 88th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 945(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 80K
- USUnited States1 in 446K
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
- 223 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 945 (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Adekunle 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 | #88 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 945 | listed | Adekunle | 137 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Adekunle | 126 |
| US United States | — | 745 | 1 in 446K | 744 | Adekunle | 223 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 879K | — | Adekunle | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 229K | — | Adekunle | 27 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Adekunle | 14 |
| MT Malta | #127 | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Adekunle | 3 |
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 ng-naijafaker register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Adekunle Adesojib. 1901NGNigerian paralympic sprinter
- Adekunle Fajuyib. 1926NGNigerian politician (1926–1966)
- Adekunle Lawalb. 1934NGNigerian politician (1934–1980)
- Adekunle Abdulkabir Akinladeb. 1969NGpolitician
- Adekunle Ajayib. 1974NGNigerian professor and consultant physician
- Babatunde Luqmon Adekunleb. 1984NGNigerian footballer
- Adekunle Goldb. 1987NGNigerian singer
- Adeleke Adekunleb. 2002NGNigerian footballer
- L.A. Salamib. 2010GBnot in their usual nameBritish blues-rock singer-songwriter based in London
- Adekunle AdejuyigbeNGNigerian Film Maker, and Producer
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 26 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 744 | #15,445 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 5 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Adekunle?
- A machine transcription gives /eɪdkunɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Adekunle a male or female name?
- Adekunle 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 Adekunle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 226 thousand people named Adekunle in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adekunle.
- How common is the name Adekunle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 745 people named Adekunle in 2020, about 1 in 446 thousand residents.
- How common is Adekunle compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Adekunle is the 88th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Adekunle?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adekunleThe 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, “Adekunle” — the 88th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.