Igbo Names
Explore names documented in Igbo naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1970. | —Unranked | — | 1992 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1972. | 18#6,371 | Down 1,018 rank positions in five years | 1997 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1977. | 16#5,775 | Up 423 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1976. | 18#5,337 | Up 2,026 rank positions in five years | 1997 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1990. | 28#4,765 | Down 213 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1978. | 14#6,244 | Down 153 rank positions in five years | 2003 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1978. | 27#4,879 | Up 1,203 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1974. | 8#9,069 | Down 876 rank positions in five years | 2003 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1988. | 7#12,175 | Up 242 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1982. | 24#5,238 | Down 976 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1979. | 14#6,281 | Up 982 rank positions in five years | 2002 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1971. | —Unranked | — | 1992 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1990. | 14#7,567 | Down 1,443 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1976. | 6#11,174 | Up 1,619 rank positions in five years | 1997 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1971. | —Unranked | — | 1997 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1967. | —Unranked | — | 1980 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1974. | 9#8,443 | Up 524 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1982. | 10#7,770 | Up 4,619 rank positions in five years | 1987 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1977. | 8#9,632 | Down 1,632 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1972. | 10#9,704 | new | 1999 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1996. | 13#6,520 | Up 181 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1983. | —Unranked | — | 1996 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2007. | 29#3,822 | Up 2,375 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Documented Igbo usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1981. | 8#9,633 | new | 2004 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.