Afolabi

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A surname from Yoruba (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

/ɑfɔlɑɓi/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated

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Afolabi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 588 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. In Nigeria it is the 26th most common surname.

  • FIFinland1 in 98K(measured from records)
  • VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 101K
  • NONorway1 in 342K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

588 people, 2010

Record sources
228 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 98K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Afolabi

  • Swahili:/ɑfɔlɑɓi/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

A surname from Yoruba.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Afolabi is found

(measured from records)

Afolabi 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 Afolabi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—5881 in 566K1.2KAfolabi228
FI Finland—571 in 98K57—10
NG Nigeria#26≈36 est.≈1 in 6.4MlistedAfolabi131
PL Poland—351 in 1.1M19—1
ES Spain—231 in 2.2M23—13
NO Norway—161 in 342K16—5
CH Switzerland—141 in 600K14—7
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines—11 in 101K1——

588 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Afolabi is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Afọlábí

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Afọlábí, Afọlabi

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Afọlábí

45 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1970198019902000Olabisi Afolabi, b. 1975Rabiu Afolabi, b. 1980Lasisi Elenu, b. 1991

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)
FormalDear Mr Afolabi,
InformalHi Afolabi,

Evidence

(measured from records)

29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Afolabi mean, and where does it come from?
A surname from Yoruba. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Afolabi?
In Swahili /ɑfɔlɑɓi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Afolabi?
In the United States, the national register counted about 588 people named Afolabi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled afolabi. After it come Finland, Nigeria, Poland and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Afolabi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Afolabi is densest in Finland — about 1 in 98 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Afolabi?
In the United States, the national register counted 588 people named Afolabi in 2010, about 1 in 566 thousand residents.
How common is Afolabi compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Afolabi is the 26th most common surname of 346,007 surnames 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, “Afolabi” — ranked 22141st in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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