Ijeoma
Ijeoma is a common Igbo feminine given name. It means "good journey". Similarly, there is the name Ijemma, which means “beautiful journey”, but this is rarely used.
- Igbo
Meaning & Origin of Ijeoma
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Ijeoma is a common Igbo feminine given name. It means "good journey". Similarly, there is the name Ijemma, which means “beautiful journey”, but this is rarely used.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Igbo
The Story of Ijeoma
American parents first put Ijeoma on the record books as a baby girl name in 1967, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1980, when 20 Ijeomas were born — ranking #3,853 that year. About 27% of every Ijeoma on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Ijeoma last appeared in the published SSA data in 2019, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 491 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
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About the name Ijeoma
Ijeoma is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1967 and has accumulated 491 births in the dataset. Ijeoma's peak popularity came in 1980 when it ranked #3,853. Use the chart and map above to compare Ijeoma'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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