Ifeoma

#9,704 in 2025Girls' name

Good thing

Ifeoma has been given to 402 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #9,704 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Ifeoma, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ifeoma: meaning, origin, and history

Good thing

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ifeoma means

Ifeoma means “good thing”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 402 girls were recorded with the name Ifeoma between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1999; its best national rank was #5,245 in 1983.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,534 in 2015 to #9,704 in 2025.

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 Ifeoma?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 332,000; 10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 161,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #9,704; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 229,791 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ifeoma 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 2025 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ifeoma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ifeomas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ifeoma was born before 1998 — so the typical Ifeoma is around 27 today.

Median birth year: 1998; About 27 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 42.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 402; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (118).

Is Ifeoma 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: +3,830; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.43×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 58.8%; Peak was 1999 (17)
Years since peak: 26; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,245; 1983

Spellings of Ifeoma

Ifeoma is not the most common spelling — Neoma is, with 67.0% against Ifeoma's 8.3%.

Neoma67.0%3,240
Leoma24.7%1,196
Ifeoma8.3%402

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 Ifeoma is used

Across 1910–2025, Ifeoma was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 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. Ifeoma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ifeoma around the world

Where Ifeoma 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
#5,927
in 2025
Ireland
2005–2006
#635
in 2006
France
2024–2024
#6,460
in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ifeoma by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #9,704
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #5,245; 1983
Peak year: 1999; 17 that year
First recorded: 1972
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 402
Count in 2025: 10

Names similar to Ifeoma

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

Ifeoluwa Sonoma Nneoma Saloma Chioma Ijeoma Wyoma Lahoma Cloma Aloma Soma Nakoma Neoma Ife Deloma Isioma Leoma Paloma Ozioma Ioma Toma Nioma Tacoma Ifetayo

Sibling names for Ifeoma

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

Reanna Cydney Gabriel Madisen Sydnie Alysa Sydni Destiney

For a brother

Jarod Samual Garret Donavon Shamar Coty Brandan Demarco

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