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Abayomi

Boys' name

They would have mocked me

Abayomi has been given to 221 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Abayomi, 2017

1 in 596,000

Abayomi over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abayomi: meaning, origin, and history

They would have mocked me

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abayomi means

Abayomi means “they would have mocked me”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Abayomi is used in Yoruba.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 221 boys were recorded with the name Abayomi between 1972 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1977; its best national rank was #2,458 in 1977.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Abayomi?

Abayomi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abayomi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abayomi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abayomis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abayomi was born before 1988 — so the typical Abayomi is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
28.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
221
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 28.5% of all recorded uses (63).

Is Abayomi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (18)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,458
1977

Where Abayomi is used

Across 1910–2025, Abayomi was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Abayomi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abayomi around the world

Where Abayomi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2009
    #3,744
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Abayomi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,458
1977
Peak year
1977
18 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
221
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Abayomi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Abayomi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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