Toluwalase
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- toh-loo-wah-LAH-sheh
- Origin
- Yoruba
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Toluwalase is a name of Yoruba origin, meaning “God has the authority”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Toluwalase mean?
Yoruba: from ti Oluwa 'God's' and ase 'authority'
“God has the authority”
Is Toluwalase a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Toluwalase has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK.
How popular is Toluwalase in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Toluwalase, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2006, with 9 girls.
2025 had more girls named Toluwalase than any year since 2015.
Half of all the girls named Toluwalase in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
Girls were 62% of the babies named Toluwalase in the UK in 2005, and 27% in 2011.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Toluwalase in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 9 | #2,451 |
| 2005 | 8 | #2,555 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
Nicknames for Toluwalase
- Tolu
Names like Toluwalase
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Temiloluwa, Oluwatamilore, Tiwatope, Ifeoluwa, Ayomide, Inioluwa, Ireoluwa, Oluwanifemi, Tiaraoluwa, Araoluwa, Anjolaoluwa, Iremide
More Yoruba names
Tobi, Oluwadarasimi, Ayomikun, Morayo, Obaloluwa, Oluwatobiloba, Oreoluwa, Sade, Oluwademilade, Tifeoluwa, Olamide, Akorede, Imisioluwa, Oluwadunsin, Boluwatife, Eriifeoluwa
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, “Toluwalase: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/toluwalase, updated 20 October 2026.