Rotimi is a boy's name of African origin meaning “stay with me.” It is a rare choice in US records.
Rotimi at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
African
Meaning
“stay with me”
About the name Rotimi
Rotimi belongs to the African tradition. Its meaning — “stay with me” — 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, Rotimi first appears in Social Security records in 1986. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #7609 in 1986, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 15 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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