Names by region
African and Caribbean names
379 names across 6 traditions. Every name links to its own page: meaning, origin and, where the records allow it, a century of popularity.
Akan, Amharic, Igbo, Somali and Yoruba names from the continent, and Haitian names from the Caribbean, each in its own collection with the meaning and origin of every name. African American names, the tradition these streams meet in the United States, have their collection one link away.
Most given in the United States, 2020 to 2025
- 1Samuel50,381 births
- 2Elias42,658 births
- 3Gabriel41,600 births
- 4Layla35,060 births
- 5Naomi26,676 births
- 6Eden20,110 births
- 7Rose14,201 births
- 8Amara13,171 births
- 9Emmanuel12,879 births
- 10Ruth9,746 births
- 11Sara9,569 births
- 12Ada9,495 births
- 13Omar8,132 births
- 14Josue6,778 births
- 15Amina5,808 births
- 16Ibrahim4,740 births
- 17Solomon4,446 births
- 18Helen4,347 births
- 19Maryam4,304 births
- 20Ayaan3,672 births
The names on this page that appear in Social Security records, ranked by births in 2020 to 2025. Names the records do not publish (spellings given to fewer than five babies a year) cannot appear here.
The collections
Every collection below is one tradition, with the meaning and origin of each name.
Akan and Ghanaian names 52 names
Kwasi · Akosua · Kwadwo · Adwoa
Amharic and Ethiopian names 80 names
Selam · Hana · Sara · Ruth
Haitian names 55 names
Jean · Pierre · Emmanuel · Frantz
Igbo names 67 names
Chidinma · Chiamaka · Ngozi · Nkechi
Somali names 55 names
Abdi · Abdirahman · Abdullahi · Mohamed
Yoruba names 72 names
Folake · Yetunde · Bisi · Bukola
Also on this siteAfrican American names