Babatunde
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Father comes again
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/babatʰʊne/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Babatunde is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 46th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 594(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 40K
- USUnited States1 in 237K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 266 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 594 (inferred from the name graph)
≈360,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Father comes again
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Babatunde 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 | #46 | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 594 | listed | Babatunde | 136 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 301 | Babatunde | 148 |
| US United States | — | 1,405 | 1 in 237K | 1.4K | Babatunde | 266 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Babatunde | 21 |
| MT Malta | #18 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Babatunde | 2 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Babatunde | 19 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 64K | listed | Babatunde | 4 |
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-names-handbook-1976 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)
Babatunde 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 Yoruba, Yoruba (Nigeria): 'father has returned'
as a nameAfrican 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)
- Babatunde Elegbedeb. 1939NGNigerian politician and admiral
- Babatunde Lawalb. 1942NGNigerian art historian
- Babatunde Osotimehinb. 1949NGHealth minister of Nigeria (1949-2017)
- Babatunde Ogunnaikeb. 1956NGAmerican chemist
- Babatunde Omidinab. 1958NGNigerian actor and comedian
- Babatunde Fasholab. 1963NGNigerian politician
- Babatunde Omotobab. 1969NGNigerian politician
- Tunde Adebimpeb. 1975USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician
- Babatunde Aiyegbusib. 1988PLPolish professional wrestler and American football player (born 1989)
- Babatunde Olumuyiwab. 1992SLSierra Leonean basketball 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 41 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,759 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 7 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #9,759 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | A Handbook of African Names (Asante, 1976) | — | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | African Names (Julia Stewart, 1993) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- Wikipedia surname 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Babatunde mean, and where does it come from?
- Father comes again Recorded by The book of African names.
- How do you pronounce Babatunde?
- A machine transcription gives /babatʰʊne/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Babatunde a male or female name?
- Babatunde 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 Babatunde have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 360 thousand people named Babatunde in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled babatunde.
- How common is the name Babatunde?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,405 people named Babatunde in 2020, about 1 in 237 thousand residents.
- How common is Babatunde compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Babatunde is the 46th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/babatundeThe 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, “Babatunde” — the 46th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.