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Abiola

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Born into wealth

Abiola has been given to 233 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 2018, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 79% girls, 21% boys all-time.

Babies named Abiola, 2023

1 in 552,000

Abiola over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Abiola over time

In 2023, Abiola went to 50% girls and 50% boys.

19772023

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Abiola: meaning, origin, and history

Born into wealth

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abiola means

Abiola means “born into wealth”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Abiola is used in Yoruba.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 183 girls were recorded with the name Abiola between 1977 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2018; its best national rank was #6,340 in 1977.

In the United States, 50 boys were recorded with the name Abiola between 1980 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2011; its best national rank was #5,528 in 1980.

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 Abiola?

Abiola had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abiola sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abiola. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abiolas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abiola was born before 2001 — so the typical Abiola is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
183
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2010s — 31.1% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Abiola 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 2018 (13)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,340
1977

Spellings of Abiola

Abiola is not the most common spelling — Viola is, with 77.7% against Abiola's 0.11%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Abiola is used

Across 1910–2025, Abiola was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Abiola has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abiola around the world

Where Abiola 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
    1996–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Abiola by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,340
1977
Peak year
2018
13 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
183
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,528
1980
Peak year
2011
7 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
50
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Abiola

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

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Sibling names for Abiola

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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