Adebola

Last seen for girls in 2017 at #15,902 · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #12,349
Given to girls 75.0% of the time

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Peak · girls
1978 · 6 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
45
since 1978

Adebola over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201983peak #8,562, 1978peak #6,951, 1987girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2024#12,3495
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2017#15,9025
2016#16,2155
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2013#14,5826
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First appearance
1978

The first year at least five girls were named Adebola! It came in at #8,562, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1979–1982, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Adebola
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2017
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1978
  • Peaked 1978 at #8,562 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1979, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 255,310
  • Highest: 1 in 255,310 girls born in 1978 were named Adebola (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 345,292 girls born in 2017 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 35.6% of all girls named Adebola (16) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
  • Mostly girls until 2023, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s6#8,562 (1978)#8,562
1980s6#9,015 (1983)#9,015
1990s6#11,783 (1995)#11,783
2000s11#13,521 (2001)#15,513
2010s16#14,582 (2013)#15,566

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Adebola in 1983

girls
#9,015
6 births · 1 in 278,435 girls

Top girls' names in 1983

  1. #1Jennifer54,353
  2. #2Jessica45,283
  3. #3Amanda33,749
  4. #4Ashley33,289
  5. #5Sarah27,228
  6. #6Melissa23,475
  7. #7Nicole22,400
  8. #8Stephanie22,329
  9. #9Heather20,747
  10. #10Elizabeth19,842
  11. #9,015Adebola6
More about 1983

girls

1,670,609 girls got a published name in 1983; 1 in 278,435 of them was named Adebola, which outranked 25.3% of the 12,074 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Adebola
  1. #8,047Zachariah7
  2. #8,047Zayda7
  3. #8,047Zuleika7
  4. #9,015Adebola6
  5. #9,015Abrielle6
  6. #9,015Adama6
  7. #9,015Adora6
  8. #10,275Aaren5
  9. #10,275Abbagail5
  10. #10,275Abbye5

Tied with 1,259 names at #9,015; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1982
Risers
  1. 6,772Ciji#7,469#697
  2. 6,751Kirby#7,469#718
  3. 2,656Dwan#3,530#874
  4. 1,888Mallory#2,220#332
  5. 987Marquita#1,099#112
Fallers
  1. 656Syreeta#717#1,373
  2. 572Jenilee#817#1,389
  3. 538Tenika#947#1,485
  4. 396Toccara#541#937
  5. 333Venus#950#1,283

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1983