Bukola
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bʊkoʊɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bukola is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 734(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 145K
- USUnited States1 in 636K
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
- 172 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 734 (inferred from the name graph)
≈290,000 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bukola 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 | #68 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 734 | — | Bukola | 106 |
| US United States | — | 523 | 1 in 636K | 485 | Bukola | 172 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Bukola | 102 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 460K | — | Bukola | 67 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 963K | — | Bukola | 11 |
| MT Malta | #437 | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Bukola | 3 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 255K | — | Bukola | 20 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Bukola Bakreenb. 1950NGbadminton player
- Bukola Sarakib. 1962NGNigerian politician, Waziri of Ilorin, senate president of the federal republic of Nigeria 2015-2019
- Bukola Oriolab. 1976USNigerian activist and journalist
- Bouquib. 1979NGnot in their usual namemusical artist
- Aṣab. 1982FRnot in their usual nameNigerian-French singer, songwriter, stage performer and recording artist
- Bukola Adeeyob. 1989NGNigerian film actress, brand ambassador, producer and model
- Bukola Abogunlokob. 1994NGNigerian sprinter
- Bukola WalfallCAactress
- Adebukola BanjokoNGnot in their usual nameNigerian judge
- Bukky OgunnoteNGnot in their usual nameNigerian actress and TV personality
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 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 485 | #19,953 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 38 | #19,953 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Bukola?
- A machine transcription gives /bʊkoʊɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Bukola a male or female name?
- Bukola 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 Bukola have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 292 thousand people named Bukola in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bukola.
- How common is the name Bukola?
- In the United States, the national register counted 523 people named Bukola in 2020, about 1 in 636 thousand residents.
- How common is Bukola compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Bukola is the 68th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bukola?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bukolaThe 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, “Bukola” — the 68th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.