Oberyn
#10,393 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Oberyn has been given to 119 babies in the U.S. since 2015. In 2025 it ranked #10,393 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Oberyn, 2025
1 in 474,000
Oberyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Oberyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,393
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Oberyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oberyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Oberyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Oberyn was born before 2019 — so the typical Oberyn is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 52.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 119
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 52.9% of all recorded uses (63).
Is Oberyn 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
- +231
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,208
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,179
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.50×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 38.9%
- Peak was 2019 (18)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.6% average annual change
Spellings of Oberyn
Oberyn is not the most common spelling — Beryl is, with 53.1% against Oberyn's 2.7%.
Oberyn around the world
Where Oberyn 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 & Wales2024–2024#5,120in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Oberyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Oberyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Oberyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.