Olalekan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Olalekan has been given to 24 babies in the U.S. since 1996. 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 1996, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Olalekan, 2017
1 in 511,000
Olalekan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Olalekan?
Olalekan 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 Olalekan 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 Olalekan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Olalekans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Olalekan was born before 1997 — so the typical Olalekan is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 24
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (12).
Is Olalekan 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 1996 (7)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.6% average annual change
Olalekan around the world
Where Olalekan 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 & Wales1996–2016#3,478in 2016
- Ireland2002–2002#451in 2002
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Central Statistics Office. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.
Olalekan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Olalekan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Olalekan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.