Unruly
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Wild; uncontrolled (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Unruly is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ghana than in any other country.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 6.8Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GHGhana≈1 in 52Kfew records
- USUnited States≈1 in 6Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ghana (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈670 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Wild; uncontrolled.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Unruly 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #748 | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 52K | Unruly | 7 |
| JM Jamaica | #119 | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | Unruly | 7 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | Unruly | 4 |
| US United States | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 6M | Unruly | 19 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | Unruly | 1 |
| BB Barbados | #108 | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 142K | Unruly | 3 |
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.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Unruly mean, and where does it come from?
- Wild; uncontrolled. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Unruly a male or female name?
- Unruly 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Unruly?
- Mondonomo estimates about 668 people named Unruly in Ghana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled unruly. After it come Jamaica, Nigeria, United States and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Unruly?
- Mondonomo estimates about 670 people in Ghana have Unruly as their first given name, about 1 in 52 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Unruly compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Unruly is the 748th most common given name of 14,081 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/unrulyThe 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, “Unruly” — the 748th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.