Akinyemi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Yoruba: 'fated to be a warrior'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ækɪnjɛmʲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Akinyemi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 838K(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 16M
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 101K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 205 (measured from records)
- 1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)
397 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Yoruba: 'fated to be a warrior'
Sources 1
- African Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Akinyemi 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 | — | 397 | 1 in 838K | 798 | Akinyemi | 205 |
| NO Norway | — | 42 | 1 in 130K | 42 | — | 5 |
| FI Finland | — | 29 | 1 in 192K | 29 | — | 4 |
| NG Nigeria | #142 | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 16M | — | Akinyemi | 102 |
| SE Sweden | — | 9 | 1 in 1.1M | 9 | — | 4 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 1 | 1 in 101K | 1 | — | — |
397 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bolaji Akinyemib. 1942NGNigerian Professor of Political Science
- Tolu Akinyemib. 1985NGNigerian poet, writer and creative
- Johnathan Akinyemib. 1988NGCanoe slalom racer
- Chris Akinyemib. 1990USAmerican musician
- Folake Akinyemib. 1990NONorwegian athletics competitor
- Akinsola Akinyemib. 1993NONorwegian association football player
- Adeleke Akinola Akinyemib. 1998NGNigerian footballer
- Olaiya Ganiyu AkinyemiNGNigerian actor
- Toni Dele AkinyemiNGNigerian film director
- Ayodele Jacobson AkinyemiNGresearcher
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 798 | #31,148 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 397 | #52,267 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 209 | #83,618 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 42 | #29,038 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 29 | #39,040 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #41,071 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #261 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Akinyemi mean, and where does it come from?
- Yoruba: 'fated to be a warrior' Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Akinyemi?
- A machine transcription gives /ækɪnjɛmʲi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Akinyemi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 397 people named Akinyemi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled akinyemi.
- Where is Akinyemi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Akinyemi is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 101 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Akinyemi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 397 people named Akinyemi in 2010, about 1 in 838 thousand residents.
- How common is Akinyemi compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Akinyemi is the 142nd 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/akinyemiThe 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, “Akinyemi” — the 142nd most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.