Adenike

Girls' name

The crown is to be cared for

Adenike has been given to 237 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 1992, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Adenike, 2024

1 in 478,000

Adenike over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adenike: meaning, origin, and history

The crown is to be cared for

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Adenike means

Adenike means “the crown is to be cared for”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Adenike is used in Yoruba.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ā.dé.nĩ́.kɛ́/ for Adenike.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 237 girls were recorded with the name Adenike between 1972 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1992; its best national rank was #5,190 in 1973.

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 Adenike?

Adenike 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 girls only: 1 in 231,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 331,009 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Adenike 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 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 Adenike. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adenikes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adenike was born before 1991 — so the typical Adenike is around 34 today.

Median birth year: 1991; About 34 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 24.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 35.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 237; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (58).

Is Adenike 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 1992 (13)
Years since peak: 33; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 23.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,190; 1973

Spellings of Adenike

Adenike is not the most common spelling — Denise is, with 79.9% against Adenike's 0.05%.

Denise79.9%373,422
Adeline17.3%80,812
Denice2.3%10,649
Denine0.21%963
Adelie0.15%688
Denika0.11%528
Adenike0.05%237

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 Adenike is used

Across 1910–2025, Adenike was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,084,400 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

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. Adenike has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Adenike around the world

Where Adenike 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
1996–2025
#4,867
in 2025

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

Adenike 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: —
Best rank ever: #5,190; 1973
Peak year: 1992; 13 that year
First recorded: 1972
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 237
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Adenike

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

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Sibling names for Adenike

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

Shelbi Shelbie Ilana Danyelle Kelsea Ivonne Maira Stormy

For a brother

Coty Malcom Edgardo Dillan Devante Shay Rosendo Dimitri

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