Oluwatosin
Oluwatosin is a name with a single cultural origin: Yoruba.
- Yoruba
Meaning & Origin of Oluwatosin
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Oluwatosin is a name with a single cultural origin: Yoruba.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Yoruba
The Story of Oluwatosin
As a girl name
Oluwatosin first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a girl name in 1976, with 7 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1998: 14 births, good for #6,719 nationwide. About 49% of every Oluwatosin on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Oluwatosin last appeared in the published SSA data in 2010, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 150 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
As a boy name
Oluwatosin first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a boy name in 1983, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2004: 13 births, good for #5,812 nationwide. About 44% of every Oluwatosin on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Oluwatosin last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 156 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Oluwatosin
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Oluwatosin. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Tosin
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About the name Oluwatosin
Oluwatosin is a unisex baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1983 and has accumulated 156 births in the dataset. Oluwatosin's peak popularity came in 2004 when it ranked #5,812. Use the chart and map above to compare Oluwatosin'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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