Girls' name · since 1981
Oluwakemi
243 babies named Oluwakemi in U.S. Social Security records since 1981, with the highest year being 2000. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #17,870 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 243
- born since 1981
- 2000s
- peak decade
Oluwakemi sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 243 recorded since 1981.
Oluwakemi has 243 recorded births among girls since 1981, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1981 to 2024.
- #17,870 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 243 born since 1981
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Oluwakemi ranks #17,870 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 243 born since 1981, peaking in the 2000s.
- #17,870 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 243
- born since 1981
- 2000s
- peak decade
Oluwakemi's 243 recorded births place it above 75.28% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Oluwakemi's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Oluwakemi's full recorded timeline at 1999, 56% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 44% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1981, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2000 peak of 13 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Oluwakemi popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1981–2024
- Peak year (2000)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 44 years of records
Oluwakemi by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (83 births, 34% of the file).
2000s was Oluwakemi's strongest decade.
83 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 34% of all-time use.
Oluwakemi births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
44 births
- 1990s
1990s
70 births
- 2000s
2000s
83 births
- 2010s 32
2010s
32 births
- 2020s 14
2020s
14 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 83 births (34% of all-time use).
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- Oluwakemi's decade-level peak was the 2000s (83 total births); usage has since declined to 14 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Oluwakemi: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~43 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1981–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Oluwakemi draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.