Olumide
Olumide is both a masculine given name and surname. It may refer to: It has the meaning "My lord has come or My hero has come."
- Yoruba
Meaning & Origin of Olumide
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Olumide is both a masculine given name and surname. It may refer to: It has the meaning "My lord has come or My hero has come."
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Yoruba
The Story of Olumide
Olumide first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1977, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2015: 11 births, good for #7,066 nationwide. About 34% of every Olumide on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Olumide last appeared in the published SSA data in 2021, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 164 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Olumide
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Olumide. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Olumide
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- Olamide
- Alamode
- Illumed
- Elamite
- Dolomite
- Plumed
- Elimate
- Gloomed
- Illumined
- Clomid
- Plumate
- Lmd
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About the name Olumide
Olumide is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1977 and has accumulated 164 births in the dataset. Olumide's peak popularity came in 2015 when it ranked #7,066. Use the chart and map above to compare Olumide'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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