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Anuoluwa

Gender
Girl
Say it
ah-noo-oh-LOO-wah
Origin
Yoruba
UK rank, 2025
#4,935 for girls

Anuoluwa is a girls' name of Yoruba origin, meaning “God's mercy”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).

What does Anuoluwa mean?

Yoruba

“God's mercy”

Yoruba name joining anu, mercy, and Oluwa, God.

Is Anuoluwa a girl's or a boy's name?

Anuoluwa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Anuoluwa in the UK?

Rank in 2025
4,935th among girls
Babies in 2025
4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising up 78% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Anuoluwa, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 8 girls.

Half of all the girls named Anuoluwa in the UK since 1996 were born between 2011 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.

2004Busiest: 8 in 20242025
Anuoluwa in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20254#4,935
20248#3,076
20234#4,915
20220–
20213#5,824
20206#3,630
20190–
20183#5,896
20170–
20160–
20154#4,951
20140–
20135#4,267
20120–
20113#6,007
20100–
20090–
20080–
20070–
20064#4,357
20053#4,976
20043#4,789

Nicknames for Anuoluwa

Names like Anuoluwa

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Anuoluwa

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Anuoluwa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/anuoluwa, updated 20 October 2026.