Obe
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Obe has been given to 73 babies in the U.S. since 1881. 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 1916, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Obe, 1948
1 in 575,000
Obe 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Obe?
Obe had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1948, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1948
- 1 in 575,000
- 6 of 3,452,053 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 292,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1948
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 398,798 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Obe sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1948 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 398,798 children born in 1948 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Obe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Obes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Obe was born before 1920 — so the typical Obe is around 105 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 47.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 47.9% of all recorded uses (35).
Is Obe 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1916 (9)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.6% average annual change
Obe by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Obe
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Obe
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.