Opeyemi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: aus Nigeria stammender männl
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/oʊpjɛmʲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Opeyemi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 732(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 138K
- USUnited States1 in 460K
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
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 732 (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)
aus Nigeria stammender männl.
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Opeyemi 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 | #67 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 732 | listed | Opeyemi | 138 |
| US United States | — | 723 | 1 in 460K | 392 | Opeyemi | 202 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 138K | 5 | Opeyemi | 119 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Opeyemi | 3 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Opeyemi | 4 |
| MT Malta | #236 | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Opeyemi | 3 |
| OM Oman | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Opeyemi | 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Benjamin Teidib. 1994NGnot in their usual nameNigerian association football player
- Opeyemi Ajakayeb. 2005NGNigerian female football player
- Opeyemi AkintundeNGNigerian christian actress, novelist and filmmaker
- Opeyemi SoworeUSNigerian-American businesswoman
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 16 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 392 | #15,796 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 331 | #15,796 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 5 | — |
| NG Nigeria | naija-faker — Nigerian Given Names by Ethnicity (Hausa/Igbo/Yoruba) | — | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | naija-faker — Nigerian Given Names by Ethnicity (Hausa/Igbo/Yoruba) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Opeyemi mean, and where does it come from?
- aus Nigeria stammender männl. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- How do you pronounce Opeyemi?
- A machine transcription gives /oʊpjɛmʲi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Opeyemi a male or female name?
- Opeyemi is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Opeyemi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 292 thousand people named Opeyemi in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled opeyemi.
- How common is the name Opeyemi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 723 people named Opeyemi in 2020, about 1 in 460 thousand residents.
- How common is Opeyemi compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Opeyemi is the 67th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/opeyemiThe 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, “Opeyemi” — the 67th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.