Adekunle

Boys' name

The crown has filled the home

Adekunle has been given to 82 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 1993, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Adekunle, 2022

1 in 484,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adekunle: meaning, origin, and history

The crown has filled the home

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Adekunle means

Adekunle means “the crown has filled the home”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Adekunle is used in Yoruba.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 82 boys were recorded with the name Adekunle between 1981 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1993; its best national rank was #4,998 in 1993.

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 Adekunle?

Adekunle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022: 1 in 484,000; 7 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only: 1 in 249,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 335,262 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Adekunle 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 2022 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 335,262 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adekunle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adekunles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adekunle was born before 1996 — so the typical Adekunle is around 29 today.

Median birth year: 1996; About 29 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 37.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 41.5%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 82; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (31).

Is Adekunle 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 1993 (11)
Years since peak: 32; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,998; 1993

Adekunle around the world

Where Adekunle 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
1996–2023
#4,992
in 2023

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

Adekunle 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: #4,998; 1993
Peak year: 1993; 11 that year
First recorded: 1981
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 82
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Adekunle

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

Ademide Adeoluwa Adewale Adetayo Adedayo Ademir Adedeji Adelaido Adelino Adebayo Adelso Adeyemi Ademola Adedamola Aderemi Adelfo Adeniyi Adetokunbo Adeline Adebowale Adeola Adeeb Adebola Adelard

Sibling names for Adekunle

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

Kaylene Jacquelynn Katlin Jessenia Brea Krysta Nikole Kalyn

For a brother

Rosendo Brandan Shaquille Tre Tylor Eloy Raheem Denton

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