Adebola
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/eɪdbələ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Adebola is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Malta it is the 78th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 105K
- USUnited States1 in 525K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈85,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Adebola 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 | #422 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | listed | Adebola | 108 |
| US United States | — | 634 | 1 in 525K | 385 | Adebola | 221 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Adebola | 103 |
| MT Malta | #78 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Adebola | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 620K | — | Adebola | 47 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 332K | — | Adebola | 7 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dele Adebolab. 1975NGNigerian footballer
- James Adebolab. 2002DEGerman athletics competitor (born 2002)
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 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Adebola?
- A machine transcription gives /eɪdbələ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Adebola a male or female name?
- Adebola 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 Adebola have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 85 thousand people named Adebola in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adebola.
- How common is the name Adebola?
- In the United States, the national register counted 634 people named Adebola in 2020, about 1 in 525 thousand residents.
- How common is Adebola compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Adebola is the 422nd 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/adebolaThe 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, “Adebola” — the 422nd most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.