Olukayode
Olukayode is a Yoruba masculine given name, commonly used in Nigeria. Its meaning is "God brings happiness" in Yoruba.
- Yoruba
Meaning & Origin of Olukayode
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Olukayode is a Yoruba masculine given name, commonly used in Nigeria. Its meaning is "God brings happiness" in Yoruba.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Yoruba
The Story of Olukayode
American parents first put Olukayode on the record books as a baby boy name in 1977, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2007, when 6 Olukayodes were born — ranking #10,921 that year. About 48% of every Olukayode on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Olukayode last appeared in the published SSA data in 2007, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 21 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Olukayode
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Olukayode. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Olukayode
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- Allocated
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- Alcayde
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- Olcott
- Elocute
- Alecto
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About the name Olukayode
Olukayode is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1977 and has accumulated 21 births in the dataset. Olukayode's peak popularity came in 2007 when it ranked #10,921. Use the chart and map above to compare Olukayode'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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