Adedayo

Boys' name

The crown becomes joy

Adedayo has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 2015, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Adedayo, 2023

1 in 663,000

Adedayo over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adedayo: meaning, origin, and history

The crown becomes joy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Adedayo means

Adedayo means “the crown becomes joy”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Adedayo is used in Yoruba.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 72 boys were recorded with the name Adedayo between 1974 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2015; its best national rank was #5,227 in 1974.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Adedayo?

Adedayo 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 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only: 1 in 342,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Adedayo 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 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adedayo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adedayos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adedayo was born before 2015 — so the typical Adedayo is around 10 today.

Median birth year: 2015; About 10 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 52.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 86.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 72; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 52.8% of all recorded uses (38).

Is Adedayo 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2015 (11)
Years since peak: 10; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 21.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,227; 1974

Adedayo around the world

Where Adedayo 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
1998–2025
#2,664
in 2025

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

Adedayo 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: #5,227; 1974
Peak year: 2015; 11 that year
First recorded: 1974
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 72
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Adedayo

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

Adetayo Adebayo Ademide Adewale Ademir Adedeji Adelino Adelso Aderemi Adeyemi Ademola Adelfo Adeniyi Adeoluwa Adekunle Adeline Temidayo Adeola Adebola Adeeb Adeolu Adelaido Adelard Adein

Sibling names for Adedayo

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

For a sister

Jessa Coraline Milana Karleigh Honesty Emmalyn Hadlee Elayna

For a brother

Caesar Taj Crosby Kolten Immanuel Raylan Emmet Blaze

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