Babatunde
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Father comes again (The book of African names)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɓaɓatuⁿɗe/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated · uncertain
Babatunde is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 46th most common given name. Babatunde is also written Бабатунде in Cyrillic.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 630(inferred from the name graph)
- MTMalta≈1 in 1.5Kfew records
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 40K
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)
- Record sources
- 266 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 629 (inferred from the name graph)
≈370,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Babatunde in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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.
How to pronounce Babatunde
- Swahili:/ɓaɓatuⁿɗe/(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)Father comes again
Cited for this meaning 1
- The book of African names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Babatunde 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 | #46 | ≈370,000 est. | ≈1 in 629 | listed | Babatunde | 136 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 301 | Babatunde | 148 |
| US United States | — | 1,405 | 1 in 237K | 1.4K | Babatunde | 266 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Babatunde | 21 |
| MT Malta | #18 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Babatunde | 2 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 46K | listed | Babatunde | 4 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 2 | — | 2 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Babatunde is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Yoruba, Yoruba (Nigeria): 'father has returned'
as a nameAfrican 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)- Babatunde Fasholab. 1963NGNigerian politician
- Tunde Adebimpeb. 1975USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician
- Babatunde Aiyegbusib. 1988PLPolish professional wrestler and American football player (born 1989)
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)41 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Babatunde mean, and where does it come from?
- Father comes again Recorded by The book of African names.
- How do you pronounce Babatunde?
- In Swahili /ɓaɓatuⁿɗe/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Babatunde a male or female name?
- Babatunde is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Babatunde?
- Mondonomo estimates about 370 thousand people named Babatunde in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled babatunde. After it come United Kingdom, United States, South Africa and Malta; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Babatunde?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,405 people named Babatunde in 2020, about 1 in 237 thousand residents.
- How common is Babatunde compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Babatunde is the 46th 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/babatundeThe 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, “Babatunde” — the 46th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.