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Obinna

#5,775 in 2025Boys' name

Heart of the father

Obinna has been given to 874 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #5,775 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Obinna, 2025

1 in 207,000

Obinna over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Obinna: meaning, origin, and history

Heart of the father

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Obinna means

Obinna means “heart of the father”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 874 boys were recorded with the name Obinna between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2006; its best national rank was #2,784 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,198 in 2020 to #5,775 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,450 in 2015 to #5,775 in 2025.

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 Obinna?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,775
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Obinna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

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

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Obinna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Obinnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Obinna was born before 2002 — so the typical Obinna is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
874
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 27.1% of all recorded uses (237).

Is Obinna 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
+3,016
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+423
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−325
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.94×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2006 (32)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,784
1984

Where Obinna is used

Across 1910–2025, Obinna was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 468,157 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Maryland1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7New York1 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. Obinna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Obinna around the world

Where Obinna 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2005
    #518
    in 2005
  • France
    2015–2024
    #4,806
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Obinna by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,775
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 423
Best rank ever
#2,784
1984
Peak year
2006
32 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
874
Count in 2025
16

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