Given name & surname
Femi
“God loves me”
Femi is used as a given name and a surname. One African interpretation is “God loves me.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One African interpretation is “God loves me.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is African.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Femi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 83
- 32 boys · 51 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #13,766 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 13,766 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 748 as a first name in 2020; a sample rank of No. 47,468 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Femi’s family of names
Femi has a related form in Femea. Femi has a related form in Femeah. Femi has a related form in Femee.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Femeahvariant
- Femeavariant
- Femeevariant
- Femeyvariant
- Femyvariant
- Femievariant
- Femmivariant
- Olúfɛ́mivariant · French
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Femi
- Femi OpabunmiNigerian footballerborn 1985
- Femi BenussiItalian actressborn 1945
- Femi OgunodeQatari sprinter of Nigerian descentborn 1991
- Femi BranchNigerian actorborn 1970
- Femi AdebayoNigerian actorborn 1978
- Femi TaylorNigerian-Born British writerborn 1961
- Femi OdugbemiNigerian filmmakerborn 1963
- Femi GbajabiamilaSpeaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeriaborn 1962
- Femi OkeBritish journalist and television presenterborn 1966
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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