girls:
98 births since 1971
#5618 (2nd percentile)
boys:
256 births since 1973
#4330 (6th percentile)
overall:
354 births since 1971
#7385 (5th percentile)
The name Ayodele is the #7,385 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 354 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 4.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,330 (5.5% percentile) for all time with 256 births since 1973. For girls, it ranks #5,618 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 98 births since 1971.
Ayodele first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for girls and 1973 for boys). Birth data for Ayodele is available in 39 out of the 52 years between 1971 and 2022 (35 years for boys and 14 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ayodele has been given predominantly to boys, with 72.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Ayodele were boys. Interestingly, until around 1977, the name was more popular for girls (69.8% girls from 1971 to 1976), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (78.1% boys from 1977 to 2022).
For boys, Ayodele reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #717) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Ayodele reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ayodele".
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Our model has identified 21 different pronunciations for the name Ayodele. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.9% confident that Ayodele is pronounced as uh-YOH-deh-lee, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-yoh-DEHL, at 9.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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