Adedayo is a boy's name of African origin meaning “the crown or royalty became joyful.” In England & Wales it was given to 8 boys in 2025.
Adedayo at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
African
Meaning
“the crown or royalty became joyful”
About the name Adedayo
Adedayo belongs to the African tradition. Its meaning — “the crown or royalty became joyful” — is the sense carried by its African roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Adedayo first appears in Social Security records in 1974. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #5229 in 1974, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 72 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. England & Wales figures are from the Office for National Statistics. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.