Ifeanyi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Our beloved possession
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪfiənji/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ifeanyi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 100th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 672(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 136K
- USUnited States1 in 406K
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
- 241 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 672 (inferred from the name graph)
≈320,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Our beloved possession.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ifeanyi 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 | #100 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 672 | listed | Ifeanyi | 147 |
| MZ Mozambique | #756 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Ifeanyi | 2 |
| US United States | — | 820 | 1 in 406K | 725 | Ifeanyi | 241 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Ifeanyi | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Ifeanyi | 110 |
| MT Malta | #70 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Ifeanyi | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 81 | 1 in 126K | 81 | — | 13 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Ifeanyi Menkitib. 1940NGNigerian poet
- Ifeanyi Ugwuanyib. 1964NGNigerian politician
- Ifeanyi Chijindub. 1978USAmerican actor and artist
- Ifeanyi Ohaleteb. 1979USplayer of American football
- Ifeanyi Udezeb. 1980NGNigerian footballer
- Ifeanyi Emegharab. 1984NGNigerian footballer
- Ifeanyi Momahb. 1989USAmerican football player
- Ifeanyi Victor Onyilob. 1990NGNigerian footballer
- Ifeanyi Edehb. 1990NGNigerian footballer
- Ifeanyi Ifeanyib. 1995NGassociation 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 33 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 725 | #14,385 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 95 | #14,385 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 81 | #9,815 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 26 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 11 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Ifeanyi mean, and where does it come from?
- Our beloved possession. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Ifeanyi?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪfiənji/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Ifeanyi a male or female name?
- Ifeanyi 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.
- What are other forms of the name Ifeanyi?
- In the etymology graph, Ify is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Ifeanyi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 319 thousand people named Ifeanyi in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ifeanyi.
- How common is the name Ifeanyi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 820 people named Ifeanyi in 2020, about 1 in 406 thousand residents.
- How common is Ifeanyi compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Ifeanyi is the 100th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ifeanyi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ifeanyiThe 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, “Ifeanyi” — the 100th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.