Olamide
Ọlámidé is a unisex given name of Yoruba origin meaning "a combination of prestige, success and wealth has arrived".
- Yoruba
Meaning & Origin of Olamide
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Ọlámidé is a unisex given name of Yoruba origin meaning "a combination of prestige, success and wealth has arrived".
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Yoruba
The Story of Olamide
As a girl name
Olamide first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a girl name in 1986, with 7 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2014: 18 births, good for #6,711 nationwide. About 33% of every Olamide on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Olamide last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 306 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
As a boy name
American parents first put Olamide on the record books as a boy name in 1992, with 6 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2015, when 21 Olamides were born — ranking #4,542 that year. About 43% of every Olamide on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. As of 2026, Olamide ranks #6,694 for boys with 12 births, gradually rising (+5%). All told, over 316 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Olamide
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Olamide. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Notable people named Olamide
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- Olamide Adedeji (born 1989), Nigerian hip hop artist
- Olamide Brown (born 1986), British doctor and businesswoman
- Olamide David (2001–2016), Nigerian child actor
- Olamide Faison (born 1983), American actor and singer
- Olamide Shodipo (born 1997), Irish footballer
- Olamide Zaccheaus (born 1997), American football player
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About the name Olamide
Olamide is a unisex baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1992 and has accumulated 316 births in the dataset. Olamide's peak popularity came in 2015 when it ranked #4,542. Use the chart and map above to compare Olamide'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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