Abayomi

given name · Latin script

Meaning: God saved me from derision

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/æbeɪoʊmi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Abayomi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Malta it is the 59th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 89K
  • USUnited States1 in 461K

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)

≈140,000 people, est.

Sources
235 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Nigeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

God saved me from derision

Sources 1

  • The book of African names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Abayomi 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.

Where Abayomi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria#257≈140,000 est.≈1 in 1.6KlistedAbayomi121
GB United Kingdom—≈740 est.≈1 in 89K113Abayomi109
US United States—7221 in 461K677Abayomi235
ZA South Africa—≈210 est.≈1 in 275K—Abayomi21
MT Malta#59≈140 est.≈1 in 3.3K—Abayomi1
GY Guyana—81 in 94K8—1
IS Iceland—21 in 175K2——

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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Abayomi is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Àbáyọ̀mí

  • Russian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Russia, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian

    Also written Абайоми, Абаёми

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Abayomi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Pleasant meeting, born to

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • Bom to bring joy

    as a nameA Handbook of African 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)

19201940196019802000Abayomi Barber, b. 1928Abayomi Abolaji, b. 1964Abayomi Mighty, b. 1985Nathan Delfouneso, b. 1991Femi Ilesanmi, b. 1991Abayomi Wilson, b. 1995

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)

InformalHi Abayomi,

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 34 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Abayomi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020180#105,671
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010123#136,449
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)2002113#30,672
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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 Abayomi mean, and where does it come from?
God saved me from derision Recorded by The book of African names.
How do you pronounce Abayomi?
A machine transcription gives /æbeɪoʊmi/ (IPA) for English.
Is Abayomi a male or female name?
Abayomi 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 Abayomi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 137 thousand people named Abayomi in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abayomi.
How common is the name Abayomi?
In the United States, the national register counted 722 people named Abayomi in 2020, about 1 in 461 thousand residents.
How common is Abayomi compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Abayomi is the 257th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.

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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, “Abayomi” — the 257th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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