Owolabi

surname · Latin script

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

Owolabi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Nigeria it is the 59th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 770K(measured from records)
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 32M
  • FIFinland1 in 253K

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.

United States (measured from records)

432 people, 2010

Sources
194 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 253K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

Owolabi 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 Owolabi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4321 in 770K846Owolabi194
PL Poland—271 in 1.4M16——
ES Spain—261 in 1.9M26—11
FI Finland—221 in 253K22—7
SE Sweden—191 in 537K19—8
NG Nigeria#59≈7 est.≈1 in 32M—Owolabi111
CH Switzerland—61 in 1.4M6—2

432 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Owolabi is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Nigeria, United States, Belgium

    Also written Ôwôlàbî

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Owólabi

43 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Israel Esan Owolabi, b. 1935James Owolabi, b. 1960Kubrat Owolabi, b. 1967Ezekiel Carl, b. 1999Abdulazeez Owolabi, b. 2000

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Owolabi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020846#29,704
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010432#48,800
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000197#87,729
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—26#70,949
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—26#69,549
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—22#41,597
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—19#26,008
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202616—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—16#103,279
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202611—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—11#128,724
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20246#89,778

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

In which country does Owolabi have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 432 people named Owolabi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled owolabi.
Where is Owolabi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Owolabi is densest in Finland — about 1 in 253 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Owolabi?
In the United States, the national register counted 432 people named Owolabi in 2010, about 1 in 770 thousand residents.
How common is Owolabi compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Owolabi is the 59th most common surname of 346,007 surnames 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, “Owolabi” — the 59th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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