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Ijeoma

Girls' name

Good journey, safe journey (general); good journey in life

Ijeoma has been given to 491 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1980, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Ijeoma, 2019

1 in 434,000

Ijeoma over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ijeoma: meaning, origin, and history

Good journey, safe journey (general); good journey in life

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ijeoma means

Ijeoma means “good journey, safe journey (general); good journey in life”, associated with ijèọma.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Igbo ijèọma (“good journey, safe journey (general); good journey in life”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ijeoma (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Ijeoma is used in English.

Ijeoma comes through Igbo ijèọma.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Ijeoma is pronounced /ɪ.d͡ʒi.oʊ.mə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 491 girls were recorded with the name Ijeoma between 1967 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1980; its best national rank was #3,894 in 1980.

How common is Ijeoma?

Ijeoma had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 434,000
8 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 210,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
300,847 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ijeoma 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 2019 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 300,847 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ijeoma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ijeomas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ijeoma was born before 1993 — so the typical Ijeoma is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
491
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (135).

Is Ijeoma 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1980 (20)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,894
1980

Spellings of Ijeoma

Ijeoma is not the most common spelling — Jemma is, with 61.9% against Ijeoma's 3.8%.

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 Ijeoma is used

Across 1910–2025, Ijeoma was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Ijeoma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ijeoma around the world

Where Ijeoma 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
    2001–2001
    #606
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ijeoma 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
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Best rank ever
#3,894
1980
Peak year
1980
20 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
491
Count in 2025
Under 5

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

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Sibling names for Ijeoma

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

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