Oluwanifemi

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Oluwanifemi: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Oluwanifemi: Recorded since 1996, it reached #893 in 2009, and it stood at #2,253 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#893highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
2003	#3594
2004	#2278
2005	#2970
2006	#2781
2007	#1741
2008	#1516
2009	#1411
2010	#1180
2011	#1903
2012	#2338
2013	#2887
2014	#3514
2015	#2496
2016	#2367
2017	#4063
2018	#4684
2019	#4001
2020	#4535
2021	#5581
2022	#5669
2023	#2201
2024	#2253

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 23 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2009: #893 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1411 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2253 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Oluwanifemi appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 23 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 215 births with the name.

Oluwanifemi across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Oluwanifemi's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#1180 (2010)	#2253 (2024)	23 of 29	215 (1996–2024)	27 (2010)
England and Wales · Boys	#2943 (1999)	#1551 (2010)	#2671 (2024)	19 of 26	122 (1999–2024)	15 (2010)

Oluwanifemi by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Oluwanifemi in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000sbusiest	77	7 of 10	11
2010s	101	10 of 10	10
2020s	34	5 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Oluwanifemi appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #893 in Republic of Ireland in 2009.

Oluwanifemi's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2253	12	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2671	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2160	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3451	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2367	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2496	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2887	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2660	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2338	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2721	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1903	14	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3300	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1180	27	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1551	15	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1411	20	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1859	11	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1516	18	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1741	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2211	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2781	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1643	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2970	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #893, first reached in 2009.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 27 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 13 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Oluwasegun · #451, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jadesola · #893, 26y
Bailee · #894, 28y
Elliemay · #894, 21y
Emily-May · #894, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Elanna · #893, 14y
Elita · #893, 14y
Jadesola · #893, 26y
Zarin · #893, 18y

Oluwanifemi was ranked #893 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2009. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Oluwanifemi and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Oluwanifemi without appearing here.

Oluwanifemi moved ahead of

Debra Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5669 and #5669 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2253 and #5891.
Dianne Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5581 and #5581 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2253 and #5891.
Kari Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5669 and #5669 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2253 and #5891.
Belinda Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2201 and #5687.

Moved ahead of Oluwanifemi

Finn Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4063 and #4763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3519.
Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2887 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #3514 and #1628.
Eabha Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2367 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4063 and #2201.
Fiadh Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2367 and #2757 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4063 and #2502.

Moved the opposite way to Oluwanifemi

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oluwanifemi went from #3795 to #2253 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oluwanifemi went from #3795 to #2253 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oluwanifemi went from #3795 to #2253 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oluwanifemi went from #3795 to #2253 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Oluwanifemi

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oluwanifemi went from #3795 to #2253 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oluwanifemi went from #3795 to #2253 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oluwanifemi went from #3795 to #2253 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oluwanifemi went from #3795 to #2253 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #893 in Republic of Ireland in 2009. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Oluwanifemi

Oluwanifemi at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Oluwanifemi across 2 official records

Oluwanifemi by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Oluwanifemi at a glance

Oluwanifemi across 2 official records

Oluwanifemi by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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