Obada
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Obada has been given to 32 babies in the U.S. since 1997. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2011, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Obada, 2016
1 in 612,000
Obada over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Obada?
Obada had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 612,000
- 6 of 3,669,531 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 316,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 423,922 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Obada sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Obada. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Obadas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Obada was born before 2001 — so the typical Obada is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 46.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 32
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 46.9% of all recorded uses (15).
Is Obada rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2011 (9)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.0% average annual change
Spellings of Obada
Obada is not the most common spelling — Obed is, with 53.9% against Obada's 0.42%.
Obada around the world
Where Obada ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2021–2021#4,789in 2021
- Canada2017–2017#2,944in 2017
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Obada by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Obada
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Obada
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.