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Olumide

Gender
Boy
Say it
oh-loo-MEE-day
Origin
Yoruba
UK rank, 2025
#4,301 for boys

Olumide is a boys' name of Yoruba origin, meaning “my lord has come”. In 2025 it ranked 4,301st for boys in the UK (4 babies).

What does Olumide mean?

Yoruba: Yoruba olu 'lord, God' + mi 'my' + de 'has come'

“my lord has come”

A Yoruba name from Nigeria; Olu is a common short form of names beginning with Olu- or Oluwa-.

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

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

How popular is Olumide in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#4,301among boys
Babies in 2025
4about 1 in 75,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 4 boys in the UK were named Olumide, making it the 4,301st most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 1996, with 10 boys.

2025 had more boys named Olumide than any year since 2014.

Half of all the boys named Olumide in the UK since 1996 were born between 1999 and 2012. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier boys aren't counted.

Among boys in 2025, it was 4,212th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 10 in 19962025
Olumide in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20254#4,301
20240–
20230–
20220–
20210–
20200–
20190–
20180–
20170–
20163#5,015
20150–
20144#4,063
20135#3,466
20124#4,147
20110–
20106#3,092
20091#6,016
20086#2,906
20070–
20065#3,013
20056#2,545
20047#2,157
20030–
20020–
20014#2,714
20004#2,612
19994#2,513
19980–
19976#1,853
199610#1,290

How popular is Olumide in the US?

No boys in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2015, with 11 boys. It first appears in the records in 1977.

Half of all the boys named Olumide in the US since 1880 were born between 1991 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

1977Busiest: 11 in 20152021
Olumide in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20215#12,141
20207#9,548
20196#10,797
20188#8,813
20176#10,770
20166#10,739
201511#7,061
20146#10,711
20130–
20125#12,267
20110–
20108#8,797
20096#10,989
20085#12,546
20077#9,782
20066#10,655
20056#10,144
20040–
20030–
20026#9,385
20010–
20000–
19990–
19980–
19975#9,259
19960–
19950–
19940–
19935#8,693
19929#5,652
19917#6,511
19905#8,108
19895#7,898
19880–
19877#5,453
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19827#5,001
19810–
19805#6,248
19790–
19780–
19775#5,843

Nicknames for Olumide

Names like Olumide

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

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Sources

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

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