Given name
Ijeoma
Ijeoma is a feminine given name from Igbo, meaning “good journey, safe journey (general); good journey in life.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ijeoma means “good journey, safe journey (general); good journey in life.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Igbo ijèọma (“good journey, safe journey (general); good journey in life”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1967. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ijeoma through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 491
- 0 boys · 491 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,181 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ijeoma’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Ijeoma
- Ijeoma Grace AguNigerian actress
- Ijeoma UchegbuPresident of Wolfson College, Cambridge and Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience at University College Londonborn 1960
- Ijeoma Queenth Danielsassociation football player (born 1992)
- Ijeoma Obiassociation football playerborn 1985
- Ijeoma UmebinyuoNigerian poet
- Ijeoma OluoAmerican writerborn 1980
- Ijeoma JohnNigerian paralympic athlete
- Ijeoma NwaogwugwuNigerian newspaper editorborn 1966
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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