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Obdulia

Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Obdulia has been given to 163 babies in the U.S. since 1920. 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 1975, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Obdulia, 1999

1 in 738,000

Obdulia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Obdulia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Obdulia means

Obdulia is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Obdulia is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /oβ.ˈðu.lja/ for Obdulia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 163 girls were recorded with the name Obdulia between 1920 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1975; its best national rank was #3,657 in 1935.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Obdulia?

Obdulia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999
1 in 738,000
5 of 3,692,373 births
Among girls only
1 in 355,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1999
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
511,873 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Obdulia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1999 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 511,873 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Obdulia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Obdulias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Obdulia was born before 1971 — so the typical Obdulia is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
30.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
128
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1970s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Obdulia 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 1975 (10)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,657
1935

Spellings of Obdulia

Obdulia is not the most common spelling — Odelia is, with 66.7% against Obdulia's 3.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Obdulia is used

Across 1910–2025, Obdulia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,286,077 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Obdulia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Obdulia around the world

Where Obdulia 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.

  • France
    1966–1966
    #2,167
    in 1966

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Obdulia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,657
1935
Peak year
1975
10 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
163
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Obdulia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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