Ekene
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ekene has been given to 42 babies in the U.S. since 2000. 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 2003, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 62% boys, 38% girls all-time.
Babies named Ekene, 2017
1 in 511,000
Ekene over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Ekene over time
In 2017, Ekene went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Ekene?
Ekene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 511,000
- 7 of 3,577,106 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 264,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 354,210 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ekene sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 354,210 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ekene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ekenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ekene was born before 2004 — so the typical Ekene is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 73.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 26
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 73.1% of all recorded uses (19).
Is Ekene 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 2003 (7)
- Years since peak
- 22
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Ekene
Ekene is not the most common spelling — Eugene is, with 54.0% against Ekene's <0.01%.
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.
Ekene around the world
Where Ekene 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 & Wales2007–2024#4,271in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ekene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Ekene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ekene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.