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Ovadia

#7,081 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Obadiah

Ovadia has been given to 155 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #7,081 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Ovadia, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ovadia: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Obadiah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ovadia means

Ovadia is a form of Obadiah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ovadia → Obadiah. The family’s meaning is “servant of Yahweh”, recorded in English with the source elements Ovadya.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Obadiah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 155 boys were recorded with the name Ovadia between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2017; its best national rank was #5,453 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,898 in 2020 to #7,081 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,534 in 2015 to #7,081 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ovadia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,081
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ovadia 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ovadia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ovadias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ovadia was born before 2018 — so the typical Ovadia is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
56.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
155
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 56.1% of all recorded uses (87).

Is Ovadia 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
+536
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,183
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,453
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.6%
Peak was 2017 (17)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,453
2017

Spellings of Ovadia

Ovadia is not the most common spelling — Obadiah is, with 58.7% against Ovadia's 3.6%.

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 Ovadia is used

Across 1910–2025, Ovadia was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 261,252 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New 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. Ovadia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ovadia around the world

Where Ovadia 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
    2000–2024
    #6,849
    in 2024

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

Ovadia by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,081
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,183
Best rank ever
#5,453
2017
Peak year
2017
17 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
155
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Ovadia

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

BardiaLydiaOvalNadiaOvaClaudiaIndiaDiaJedadiaKandiaTheodiaOdia

Sibling names for Ovadia

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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