Ogechi
Ogechi is a feminine given name of Igbo that means “God’s time”. There is also the name Ogechukwu, with the same meaning. Notable people with the name include:Ogechi Adeola, Nigerian business academic Ogechi Ogwudu, Nigerian taekwondo practitioner Ogechi Onyinanya, Nigerian footballer
- Igbo
Meaning & Origin of Ogechi
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Ogechi is a feminine given name of Igbo that means “God’s time”. There is also the name Ogechukwu, with the same meaning. Notable people with the name include:Ogechi Adeola, Nigerian business academic Ogechi Ogwudu, Nigerian taekwondo practitioner Ogechi Onyinanya, Nigerian footballer
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Igbo
The Story of Ogechi
American parents first put Ogechi on the record books as a baby girl name in 1980, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1997, when 15 Ogechis were born — ranking #6,162 that year. About 31% of every Ogechi on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Ogechi last appeared in the published SSA data in 2018, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 289 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Ogechi
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About the name Ogechi
Ogechi is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1980 and has accumulated 289 births in the dataset. Ogechi's peak popularity came in 1997 when it ranked #6,162. Use the chart and map above to compare Ogechi'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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