Kayode
given name · Latin script
Meaning: He brought joy
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kʰajode/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kayode is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 90th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 728(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 94K
- USUnited States1 in 423K
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
- 215 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 728 (inferred from the name graph)
≈290,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
He brought joy
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kayode 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 | #90 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 728 | listed | Kayode | 134 |
| US United States | — | 786 | 1 in 423K | 780 | Kayode | 215 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 94K | listed | Kayode | 132 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Kayode | 22 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Kayode | 3 |
| MT Malta | #73 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Kayode | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Kayode | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 14 | 1 in 54K | 14 | — | 2 |
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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
- Kayode Petersb. 1975NGNigerian filmmaker (1975–2025)
- Kayode Akinsanyab. 1976NGbadminton player
- Kayode Odejayib. 1982NGNigerian footballer
- Lateef Kayodeb. 1983NGNigerian boxer
- Kayode Kasumb. 1992NGNigerian movie director
- Kayode Ewumib. 1993GBBritish actor
- Kayode AjuloNGNigerian lawyer and politician
- Princess Olufemi-KayodeNGNigerian criminal justice psychologist
- Kayode AdebiyiNGNigerian Managing Director
- Kayode ObayomiNGNigerian actor
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 36 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 780 | #14,844 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 14 | #580 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 7 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Kayode mean, and where does it come from?
- He brought joy Recorded by The book of African names.
- How do you pronounce Kayode?
- A machine transcription gives /kʰajode/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Kayode a male or female name?
- Kayode 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 Kayode have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 294 thousand people named Kayode in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kayode.
- How common is the name Kayode?
- In the United States, the national register counted 786 people named Kayode in 2020, about 1 in 423 thousand residents.
- How common is Kayode compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Kayode is the 90th 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/kayodeThe 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, “Kayode” — the 90th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.