Adebowale

Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Adebowale has been given to 24 babies in the U.S. since 1982. 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 1994, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Adebowale, 2018

1 in 703,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Adebowale?

Adebowale had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 363,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adebowale 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 2018 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adebowale. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adebowales were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adebowale was born before 1984 — so the typical Adebowale is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
24
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Adebowale 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (7)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#5,567
1984

Adebowale around the world

Where Adebowale 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
    2005–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022

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

Adebowale 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
#5,567
1984
Peak year
1994
7 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
24
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Adebowale

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

Sibling names for Adebowale

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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