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Adebayo

Boys' name

Crown, royalty + to meet, through Adébáyọ̀

Adebayo has been given to 137 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1997, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Adebayo, 2024

1 in 478,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adebayo: meaning, origin, and history

Crown, royalty + to meet, through Adébáyọ̀

Yoruba

What Adebayo means

Adebayo belongs to the name family reached through Adebayo → Adébáyọ̀. Its meaning is “crown, royalty + to meet”.

Origin, language, and formation

Adebayo is used in English. Its origins include Yoruba.

Adebayo comes through Yoruba Adébáyọ̀.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adébáyọ̀.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 137 boys were recorded with the name Adebayo between 1979 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1997; its best national rank was #4,214 in 1984.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Adebayo?

Adebayo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adebayo 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adebayo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adebayos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adebayo was born before 1997 — so the typical Adebayo is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
35.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
137
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 35.0% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Adebayo 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 1997 (12)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,214
1984

Adebayo around the world

Where Adebayo 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
    1997–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024

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

Adebayo 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
—
Best rank ever
#4,214
1984
Peak year
1997
12 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
137
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Adebayo

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

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Sibling names for Adebayo

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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