Olajide
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Olajide has been given to 37 babies in the U.S. since 1987. 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 1987, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Olajide, 2021
1 in 678,000
Olajide 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Olajide?
Olajide had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 678,000
- 5 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 350,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,949 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Olajide sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Olajide. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Olajides were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Olajide was born before 1990 — so the typical Olajide is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 45.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 37
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 45.9% of all recorded uses (17).
Is Olajide 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 1987 (12)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 58.3% average annual change
Olajide around the world
Where Olajide 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 & Wales2001–2018#4,749in 2018
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Olajide by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Olajide
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Olajide
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.