Temitayo — boys' name

What the Data Says About Temitayo

The Social Security Administration has registered 88 babies named Temitayo between 1993 and 2021, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Temitayo currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Temitayo is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 39 additional births since 1984.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Temitayo performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 33 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Temitayo shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Temitayo in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Temitayo 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 88 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.