Adebayo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A male given name from Yoruba
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/adʲibajo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Adebayo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 323(inferred from the name graph)
- TGTogo≈1 in 19K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 30K
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
- 51 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 323 (inferred from the name graph)
≈660,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A male given name from Yoruba.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Adebayo 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 | #318 | ≈660,000 est. | ≈1 in 323 | listed | Adebayo | 51 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Adebayo | 12 |
| US United States | — | 891 | 1 in 373K | 1.8K | Adebayo | 27 |
| TG Togo | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 1 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Adebayo | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 42 | 1 in 133K | 42 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 30K | listed | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Adebayo 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.
He came in a joyful time
as a nameThe book of African names
He came at a joyful time.
as a nameThe African book of 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)
- Adebayo Salamib. 1953NGNigerian actor and film director
- Diran Adebayob. 1968GBBritish novelist
- Femi Adebayob. 1970NGNigerian actor
- Olamide Toyin Adebayob. 1976NGbadminton player
- Ayobami Adebayob. 1988NGNigerian author
- Bo Adebayob. 1988CACanadian football player
- Mr Macaronib. 1992NGnot in their usual nameNigerian comedian
- Tobi Adebayo-Rowlingb. 1996GBBritish association football player
- Bam Adebayob. 1997USAmerican basketball player (born 1997)
- Elijah Adebayob. 1998GBEnglish footballer (born 1933)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,388 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 891 | #27,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 418 | #47,654 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 42 | #26,312 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Adebayo mean, and where does it come from?
- A male given name from Yoruba. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Adebayo?
- A machine transcription gives /adʲibajo/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Adebayo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 663 thousand people named Adebayo in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adebayo.
- How common is the name Adebayo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 891 people named Adebayo in 2010, about 1 in 373 thousand residents.
- How common is Adebayo compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Adebayo is the 318th most common surname of 346,007 surnames 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/adebayoThe 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, “Adebayo” — the 318th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.