Odunayo
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/oɗunajo/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Odunayo is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 580Kfew records
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
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)
- Record sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Odunayo 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 | #377 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Odunayo | 80 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 576K | 10 | Odunayo | 76 |
| US United States | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | listed | Odunayo | 116 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Odunayo | 11 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Odunayo | 25 |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Odunayo Eweniyib. 1992NGNigerian business executive
- Aji Aleseb. 2001GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player (born 2001)
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Odunayo?
- In Swahili /oɗunajo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Odunayo a male or female name?
- Odunayo is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Odunayo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 112 thousand people named Odunayo in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled odunayo. After it come United Kingdom, United States, South Africa and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Odunayo?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Odunayo in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
- How common is Odunayo compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Odunayo is the 377th 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/odunayoThe 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, “Odunayo” — the 377th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.