Folasade
Folasade is a given Yoruba name. Notable people with the name include:Folasade Baderinwa, American broadcast journalist known as Sade Baderinwa Folasade Ogunsola, Nigerian microbiologist and professor Helen Folasade Adu, Nigerian-born British singer known as Sade
- Yoruba
Meaning & Origin of Folasade
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Folasade is a given Yoruba name. Notable people with the name include:Folasade Baderinwa, American broadcast journalist known as Sade Baderinwa Folasade Ogunsola, Nigerian microbiologist and professor Helen Folasade Adu, Nigerian-born British singer known as Sade
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Yoruba
The Story of Folasade
American parents first put Folasade on the record books as a baby girl name in 1985, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1996, when 18 Folasades were born — ranking #5,280 that year. About 28% of every Folasade on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Folasade last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 419 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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About the name Folasade
Folasade is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1985 and has accumulated 419 births in the dataset. Folasade's peak popularity came in 1996 when it ranked #5,280. Use the chart and map above to compare Folasade'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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