Adekunle
Adékúnlé is a name of Yoruba origin, meaning "the crown or royalty fills up the (family) house."
- Yoruba
Meaning & Origin of Adekunle
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Adékúnlé is a name of Yoruba origin, meaning "the crown or royalty fills up the (family) house."
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Yoruba
The Story of Adekunle
Adekunle first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1981, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1993: 11 births, good for #5,003 nationwide. About 38% of every Adekunle on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Adekunle last appeared in the published SSA data in 2022, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 82 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Adekunle
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Adekunle. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Kunle
Names that sound like Adekunle
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About the name Adekunle
Adekunle is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1981 and has accumulated 82 births in the dataset. Adekunle's peak popularity came in 1993 when it ranked #5,003. Use the chart and map above to compare Adekunle's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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