Olufemi

given name · Latin script

Meaning: God loves me

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/olufɛmʲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Olufemi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Malta it is the 14th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 51K
  • USUnited States1 in 268K

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)

≈140,000 people, est.

Sources
245 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Nigeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

God loves me

Sources 1

  • The book of African names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Olufemi 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.

Where Olufemi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria#224≈140,000 est.≈1 in 1.5KlistedOlufemi132
GB United Kingdom—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 51K69Olufemi132
US United States—1,2421 in 268K1.2KOlufemi245
ZA South Africa—≈320 est.≈1 in 174K—Olufemi24
MT Malta#14≈250 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Olufemi4
SL Sierra Leone—≈79 est.≈1 in 84K1—4
GY Guyana—61 in 125K6—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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; NEC/ECSL — 2018 Local Council, Chairperson and Mayor nominated candidates. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Olufemi is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Olúfẹ́mi, Olú́fẹ́mi

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Olufèmi, Olufémi

  • Russian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Nigeria, Russia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Олуфеми, Олуфемі

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Olufemi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, aus Nigeria stammender männl.

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • God love me

    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)

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)

InformalHi Olufemi,

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 30 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Olufemi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020176#107,521
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010106#153,769
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200269#41,749
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname 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 Olufemi mean, and where does it come from?
God loves me Recorded by The book of African names.
What are other forms of the name Olufemi?
In the etymology graph, Oluwafemi is a form of the same name in other languages; Femi is a recorded short or pet form.
How do you pronounce Olufemi?
A machine transcription gives /olufɛmʲi/ (IPA) for English.
Is Olufemi a male or female name?
Olufemi 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 Olufemi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 138 thousand people named Olufemi in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olufemi.
How common is the name Olufemi?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,242 people named Olufemi in 2020, about 1 in 268 thousand residents.
How common is Olufemi compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Olufemi is the 224th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.

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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, “Olufemi” — the 224th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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