Ikechukwu
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The power of God
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɪktʃəkwu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ikechukwu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Malta it is the 56th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 931(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 148K
- USUnited States1 in 379K
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)
- Sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 931 (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The power of God
Sources 1
- A Handbook of African Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ikechukwu 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 | #154 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 931 | listed | Ikechukwu | 136 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Ikechukwu | 6 |
| US United States | — | 877 | 1 in 379K | 869 | Ikechukwu | 215 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Ikechukwu | 20 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 148K | listed | Ikechukwu | 83 |
| MT Malta | #56 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Ikechukwu | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 71 | 1 in 144K | 71 | — | 9 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Ikechukwu Ucheb. 1984NGNigerian footballer
- Ikechukwu Ezenwab. 1988NGNigerian association football player
- Ike Nwekeb. 2000USnot in their usual namebasketball player
- Ikechukwu Ebokob. 2003NGNigerian association football player
- IkechukwuNGNigerian singer, rapper, and actor
- Titus Ikechukwu NnabugwuNGNigerian Catholic priest
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)
Attested in 41 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 29 | #19,150 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Ikechukwu mean, and where does it come from?
- The power of God Recorded by A Handbook of African Names.
- How do you pronounce Ikechukwu?
- A machine transcription gives /aɪktʃəkwu/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Ikechukwu a male or female name?
- Ikechukwu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ikechukwu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 230 thousand people named Ikechukwu in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ikechukwu.
- How common is the name Ikechukwu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 877 people named Ikechukwu in 2020, about 1 in 379 thousand residents.
- How common is Ikechukwu compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Ikechukwu is the 154th 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/ikechukwuThe 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, “Ikechukwu” — the 154th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.