Egba
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Egba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A subgroup of the Yoruba people.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 14M
- USUnited States≈1 in 66M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A subgroup of the Yoruba people.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Egba 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 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | Egba | 35 |
| US United States | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 66M | Egba | 20 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 14M | Egba | 18 |
| KE Kenya | — | — | Egba | 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.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
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
- What does the name Egba mean, and where does it come from?
- A subgroup of the Yoruba people. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Egba have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Egba in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled egba.
- How common is the name Egba?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12,000 people in Nigeria have Egba as their first surname, about 1 in 18 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/egbaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Egba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.