Oreoluwa

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Oreoluwa: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #414 in 2004, and it stood at #2,771 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
58times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#414highest recorded position
11groupings 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	#3126
1997	#2411
1998	#2407
1999	#1675
2000	#2416
2001	#3262
2002	#2105
2003	#1628
2004	#1952
2005	#2682
2006	#1585
2007	#1854
2008	#2292
2009	#1467
2010	#2235
2011	#2150
2012	#2338
2013	#1774
2014	#2464
2015	#3615
2016	#2547
2017	#2706
2018	#2674
2019	#3541
2020	#3899
2021	#3961
2022	#3970
2023	#2346
2024	#2771

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2008: #862 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2292 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 #3126 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
Highest recorded2002–2008
Highest recorded position: #414 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2004 (recorded 2002–2008).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2771 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Oreoluwa appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 265 births with the name.

Oreoluwa across 3 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.

Oreoluwa'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 · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#1703 (2000)	#2921 (2024)	23 of 29	117 (1996–2024)	10 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#1467 (2009)	#2771 (2024)	29 of 29	265 (1996–2024)	19 (2009)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#620 (2002)	#414 (2004)	#862 (2008)	5 of 7	19 (2002–2008)	7 (2004)

Oreoluwa 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 Oreoluwa in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	26	4 of 10	7
2000sbusiest	104	10 of 10	10
2010s	100	10 of 10	10
2020s	35	5 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 10 births a year.

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

Oreoluwa 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: #414 in Republic of Ireland in 2004.

Oreoluwa'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	#2771	9	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2921	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2346	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2160	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3541	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2674	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2706	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2464	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1774	16	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2338	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3039	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2150	12	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2892	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2235	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3332	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1467	19	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2292	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1854	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1585	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2538	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2682	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1952	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1628	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2105	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1703	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1675	10	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#414	7	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#451	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 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #414, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 19 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

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.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 6 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.

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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.

Tobin · #414, 29y
Tudor · #414, 27y
Abbigail · #413, 27y
Minahil · #413, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aslan · #414, 20y
Ikra · #414, 26y
Patsy · #414, 29y
Raven · #414, 30y

Oreoluwa was ranked #414 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2004. 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.

Oreoluwa 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 Oreoluwa without appearing here.

Oreoluwa moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3970 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2346 and #5687.
Kristine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3615 and #3252 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2547 and #5785.
Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4001 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2160 and #4991.
Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4789 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2160 and #4991.

Moved ahead of Oreoluwa

Matheo Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3449 and #4812 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #2076.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3541 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #1939.
Isak Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2707 and #3908 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #3449 and #2052.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2346 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2771 and #1743.

Moved the opposite way to Oreoluwa

Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oreoluwa went from #1675 to #2771 while Frida went from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oreoluwa went from #1675 to #2771 while Meabh went from #3225 to #952.
Arlo Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Oreoluwa went from #1703 to #2921 while Arlo went from #2142 to #15.
Isak Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Oreoluwa went from #1703 to #2921 while Isak went from #3036 to #1517.

Moved the same way as Oreoluwa

Brooke Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Oreoluwa went from #2863 to #4608 and Brooke from #2357 to #4608.
Ole Compare
Between 2000 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Oreoluwa went from #1703 to #4001 and Ole from #3036 to #4789.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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: #414 in Republic of Ireland in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Oreoluwa

Oreoluwa at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Oreoluwa across 3 official records

Oreoluwa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Oreoluwa appears in

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Oreoluwa at a glance

Oreoluwa across 3 official records

Oreoluwa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Oreoluwa and the names beside it

Oreoluwa moved ahead of

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