Olayinka
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɔlajinka/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Olayinka 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. In Malta it is the 80th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 810(inferred from the name graph)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis≈1 in 43K
- DMDominica≈1 in 49K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 237 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 810 (inferred from the name graph)
≈290,000 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)Olayinka 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 | #142 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 810 | listed | Olayinka | 118 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 208 | Olayinka | 115 |
| US United States | — | 1,061 | 1 in 314K | 627 | Olayinka | 237 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 262K | — | Olayinka | 21 |
| MT Malta | #80 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Olayinka | 3 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 1 | — | 2 |
| DM Dominica | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 1 | — | 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.
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; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 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)- Olayinka Koso-Thomasb. 1937NGNigerian physician
- Morenike Atunraseb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1986)
- KSIb. 1993GBnot in their usual nameBritish YouTube personality, rapper, actor, and boxer
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)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Olayinka?
- In Swahili /ɔlajinka/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Olayinka a male or female name?
- Olayinka is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Olayinka?
- Mondonomo estimates about 287 thousand people named Olayinka in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olayinka. After it come United Kingdom, United States, South Africa and Malta; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Olayinka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,061 people named Olayinka in 2020, about 1 in 314 thousand residents.
- How common is Olayinka compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Olayinka is the 142nd 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/olayinkaThe 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, “Olayinka” — the 142nd most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.