Ifunanya
Ifunanya is a feminine Igbo name with its roots in South Eastern Nigeria. Ifunanya means "love".
Meaning & Origin of Ifunanya
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Ifunanya is a feminine Igbo name with its roots in South Eastern Nigeria. Ifunanya means "love".
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The Story of Ifunanya
The earliest SSA record of Ifunanya as a baby girl name dates back to 1996, when 5 babies received it. 2009 was its biggest year on record, with 12 newborns named Ifunanya — #9,379 in the national rankings. About 49% of every Ifunanya on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Ifunanya last appeared in the published SSA data in 2023, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 68 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
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About the name Ifunanya
Ifunanya is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1996 and has accumulated 68 births in the dataset. Ifunanya's peak popularity came in 2009 when it ranked #9,379. Use the chart and map above to compare Ifunanya'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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