Akande
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Yoruba
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/akʰande/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Akande is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Nigeria it is the 94th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 637K(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54K
- SESweden1 in 464K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
522 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Yoruba.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Akande 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 522 | 1 in 637K | 792 | Akande | 211 |
| ES Spain | — | 31 | 1 in 1.6M | 31 | — | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 22 | 1 in 464K | 22 | — | 8 |
| PL Poland | — | 14 | 1 in 2.7M | 10 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 10 | 1 in 1.7M | 10 | Akande | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | 3 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | #94 | — | — | listed | Akande | 120 |
522 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
- Samson Oladeji Akandeb. 1896NGNigerian Christian minister
- Zanana Akandeb. 1937CACanadian politician
- Nike Akandeb. 1944NGNigerian economist, industrialist
- Timothy Funso Akandeb. 1956NGWriter
- Mulikat Adeola Akandeb. 1960NGNigerian politician
- Benjamin Akandeb. 1962NGNigerian-American economist
- Lola Akandeb. 1965NGAcademic and author (b. 1965)
- Dakore Akandeb. 1978NGNigerian actress
- Dapo AkandeGBBritish-Nigerian academic and lawyer
- Akinmade Timothy AkandeGBresearcher
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 792 | #31,342 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 522 | #41,657 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 276 | #66,878 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 31 | #62,396 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 31 | #61,483 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 22 | #23,988 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #131,368 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 10 | #63,305 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #214,911 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Akande mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Yoruba. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Akande?
- A machine transcription gives /akʰande/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Akande have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 522 people named Akande, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled akande.
- Where is Akande most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Akande is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 54 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Akande?
- In the United States, the national register counted 522 people named Akande in 2010, about 1 in 637 thousand residents.
- How common is Akande compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Akande is the 94th 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/akandeThe 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, “Akande” — the 94th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.