Obert
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Obert has been given to 619 babies in the U.S. since 1895. 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 1921, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Obert, 1988
1 in 336,000
Obert 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Obert?
Obert had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1988
- 1 in 336,000
- 11 of 3,694,212 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 174,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1988
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 232,786 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Obert sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1988 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 232,786 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Obert. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Oberts were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Obert was born before 1928 — so the typical Obert is around 97 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 29.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 172
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 29.2% of all recorded uses (181).
Is Obert 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 1921 (25)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 41.3% average annual change
Spellings of Obert
Obert is not the most common spelling — Robert is, with 85.7% against Obert's 0.01%.
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 Obert is used
Across 1910–2025, Obert was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 129,520 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Dakota1 in 50,000
- 2Minnesota1 in 100,000
- 3Wisconsin1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Obert has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Obert by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Obert
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Obert
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.