Ayodele — boys' name

What the Data Says About Ayodele

The Social Security Administration has registered 256 babies named Ayodele between 1973 and 2022, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ayodele currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Ayodele is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 98 additional births since 1971.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ayodele performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 74 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Ayodele shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ayodele in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ayodele in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 256 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.