Ayomide
Masculine · “my joy has arrived”
Ayomide is given to both — 667 boys and 488 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Ayomide is a Yoruba sentence: my joy has arrived. Yoruba names are often full statements about the circumstances of a birth, and this is one of the plainest and happiest.
How old is the name Ayomide?
Ayomide first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Ayomide is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Ayomide are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ayomide most popular?
Ayomide peaked in 2017, reaching #3123 nationally. Today it ranks #3757, 634 places below that high. See the whole 2017 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Ayomide
Yoruba children traditionally receive several names — one from the circumstances of the birth, one from the family lineage, one given at a naming ceremony a week after birth — and the circumstance name is usually a full sentence. Ayomide belongs to a large family of ayo names: Ayodele, joy comes home; Ayotunde, joy returns. It reaches American and British records with Nigerian families in growing numbers.
Meaning
my joy has arrived
From Yoruba ayo, joy, mi, my, and de, to arrive; the name is a complete clause rather than a word, which is normal in Yoruba naming and rare almost everywhere else.
Pronouncing Ayomide
ah-yo-MEE-deh
Four syllables, evenly weighted; Yoruba is a tone language and the tones do not survive in English.
Nicknames for Ayomide
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1993
- Most boys named
- 201737 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3123reached in 2017
- Change vs 2024
- +31.8%29 in 2025, from 22
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Ayomide in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ayomide in Yoruba — same name
- Ayodele in Yoruba — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, New York, Maryland.
Ayomides among us
people named Ayomide are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 58,899 born in 2025 was named Ayomide
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kynan test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ayomide's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kynan climbed just as high around 1974, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kynan's path sketches the road Ayomide is walking now.
Ayomide sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Ayomide is headed
Ayomide should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Ayomide beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ayomide in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that is a complete and genuinely happy sentence.
- Ayo is a complete Yoruba name in its own right and a ready short form.
- It belongs to a very large and growing community in America and Britain.
- Yoruba is tonal and the tones are lost entirely in English spelling and speech.
- Eight letters and four syllables is a great deal for American forms.
- It is used for both sexes in Yoruba naming, so forms may guess wrong.
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Masculine · #3757 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Ayomides are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Ayomide are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Ayomide in 2025?
- Ayomide ranks #3757 among US boy names in 2025, with 29 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ayomide?
- About 1 in every 58,899 US boys born in 2025 was named Ayomide — 29 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ayomide with classmates?
- Ayomide will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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