Ikenna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: God’s authority,
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɪknə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ikenna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 206K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 213K
- USUnited States1 in 371K
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
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 206K (inferred from the name graph)
896 people, 2020
Reference-verified
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
God’s authority,
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ikenna 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 | 896 | 1 in 371K | 880 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 48 | 1 in 213K | 48 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 42 | 1 in 411K | 42 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 27 | 1 in 206K | 49 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 23 | 1 in 1.7M | 23 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
896 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ikenna 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.
Father's power
as a nameA Handbook of African 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)
- Citizen Ikenna Samuelson Iwuohab. 1970NGNigerian human rights activist and businessman
- Ikenna Azuikeb. 1979NGNigerian-British broadcaster
- Ikenna Bryan Okwarab. 1986NGNigerian model
- Ikenna Hilaryb. 1991NGNigerian association football player
- Ikenna Iroegbub. 1995USNigerian basketball player (born 1995)
- Ikenna Offorb. 1996NGNigerian association football player
- Ikenna Ndugbab. 1998USNigerian basketball player (born 1998)
- Ikenna Ezealab. 2001ATAustrian association football player
- Ikenna Ibe-Akobib. 2001Bolivian athletics competitor (born 2001)
- Ikenna Emma AniekweNGNigerian film director and screenwriter
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 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #55,098 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Ikenna mean, and where does it come from?
- God’s authority, Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Ikenna?
- A machine transcription gives /aɪknə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Ikenna a male or female name?
- Ikenna 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 Ikenna have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 896 people named Ikenna, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ikenna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ikenna is densest in Finland — about 1 in 206 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ikenna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 896 people named Ikenna in 2020, about 1 in 371 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ikenna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ikennaThe 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, “Ikenna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.