How many Oluwatobis are there in the world?

No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Oluwatobi are estimated to be alive in the US today.

How popular is the name Oluwatobi in 2025?

Oluwatobi ranks #9714 among US boy names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.

How rare is the name Oluwatobi?

About 1 in every 244,011 US boys born in 2025 was named Oluwatobi — 7 in all.

Will my child share the name Oluwatobi with classmates?

Oluwatobi will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Oluwatobi

Masculine · “Yoruba”

Oluwatobi is given to both — 562 boys and 158 girls since 1880. See other names given to both

#9714 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year

rare7 boys in 2025

Yoruba and Igbo are unrelated languages, and both build names as complete sentences about God. Oluwatobi is God is great; Chukwuemeka is God has done greatly. Two Nigerian naming systems arrived at the same structure independently.

How old is the name Oluwatobi?

Oluwatobi first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Oluwatobi alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 600 people named Oluwatobi are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Oluwatobi most popular?

Oluwatobi peaked in 2002, reaching #3095 nationally. Today it ranks #9714, 6,619 places below that high. See the whole 2002 chart.

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Where it comes from

From Oluwa to Oluwatobi

The story of Oluwatobi

Yoruba theophoric names are full clauses and there are hundreds of them. Oluwatobi, God is great. Oluwaseun, thank God. Oluwafemi, God loves me. Oluwadamilare, God has vindicated me. Oluwatosin, God is worthy of worship. Oluwabunmi, God gave me this. The same structure works with Olorun, another word for God, and with the shortened Olu-. Igbo does exactly the same thing with Chukwu and chi, producing Chukwuemeka, Chukwudi and Chidera. The two languages belong to different branches of the Niger-Congo family and are not mutually intelligible, so the shared structure is not inheritance from a recent common source but a shared assumption about what a name is for: it records what the parents want said about their circumstances, and the most important thing to be said is usually about God.

Meaning

Yoruba, God is great

Oluwatobi is a Yoruba sentence name joining Oluwa, God or Lord, to tobi, is great or is big. Oluwa is the standard Yoruba word for God and opens a very large family of names. Yoruba is tonal and the tones, which distinguish meanings, are not written in English spelling. The American peak is 2002.

How the name formed

Oluwa
Oluwatobi

Related forms: Oluwatobi · Olutobi

Pronouncing Oluwatobi

oh-loo-wah-TOH-bee

Five syllables, with the tones carrying meaning in Yoruba and none of them written in English. Tobi is the form used in everyday speech.

Nicknames for Oluwatobi

Moderate

TobiThe standard short form, a complete name in its own right

OluThe first element, also used alone as a name

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: 1990
Most boys named: 200229 — the highest on record
Peak rank: #3095reached in 2002
Change vs 2024: +16.7%7 in 2025, from 6

Oluwatobi sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2002, with 29 boys. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Oluwatobi in other languages

The same name elsewhere

Oluwatobi in Yoruba — same name
Olutobi in Yoruba — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Maryland.

Oluwatobis among us

600

people named Oluwatobi are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 boy in 244,011 born in 2025 was named Oluwatobi

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

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Is it right for you

What happens to a name after it peaks

The Rafiq test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Oluwatobi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rafiq climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rafiq's path sketches the road Oluwatobi is walking now.

40%chance Oluwatobi will feel dated by 2040

Oluwatobi, aligned on its peakRafiq· peak 1976not yet written

Oluwatobi today is about where Rafiq stood in 1999 — 23 years past a #3095-sized peak. By 2014, Rafiq had settled around #10449.

Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Oluwatobi 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

Oluwatobi beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Oluwatobi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Oluwatobithis name7#9714Vern7#9714Abrahm7#9714Sid7#9714Hartwell7#9714

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths

Tobi is a complete and widely used short form.
The meaning is a full sentence and fully documented.
Every vowel is open and clear.

What to consider

Nine letters and five syllables will be shortened immediately.
The tones, which carry meaning, are lost in English.
It signals Yoruba heritage very specifically.

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How many Oluwatobis are there in the world?: No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Oluwatobi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How popular is the name Oluwatobi in 2025?: Oluwatobi ranks #9714 among US boy names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Oluwatobi?: About 1 in every 244,011 US boys born in 2025 was named Oluwatobi — 7 in all.
Will my child share the name Oluwatobi with classmates?: Oluwatobi will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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