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Olayinka

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Wealth surrounds me

Olayinka has been given to 110 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1997, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 55% girls, 45% boys all-time.

Babies named Olayinka, 2001

1 in 748,000

Olayinka over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Olayinka over time

In 2018, Olayinka went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

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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.

Olayinka: meaning, origin, and history

Wealth surrounds me

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Olayinka means

Olayinka means “wealth surrounds me”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Olayinka is used in Yoruba.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 61 girls were recorded with the name Olayinka between 1973 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1997; its best national rank was #8,112 in 1973.

In the United States, 49 boys were recorded with the name Olayinka between 1975 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1991; its best national rank was #6,051 in 1975.

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.

How common is Olayinka?

Olayinka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 748,000
5 of 3,742,181 births
Among girls only
1 in 360,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,778 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Olayinka 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 2001 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 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Olayinka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Olayinkas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Olayinka was born before 1984 — so the typical Olayinka is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
47.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
61
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Olayinka 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 1997 (8)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,112
1973

Olayinka around the world

Where Olayinka 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
    1998–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Olayinka 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
#8,112
1973
Peak year
1997
8 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
61
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,051
1975
Peak year
1991
8 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
49
Count in 2025
Under 5

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

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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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