Oved

Boys' name

Form of Obed

Oved has been given to 60 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 2006, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Oved, 2015

1 in 740,000

Oved over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Oved: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Obed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Oved means

Oved is a form of Obed.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Oved is used in Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew.

Another recorded pronunciation is /o.ˈved/ for Oved.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Oved → Obed. The family’s meaning is “servant”, recorded in English with the source elements Oved.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Obed.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 60 boys were recorded with the name Oved between 1979 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2006; its best national rank was #6,773 in 1979.

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 Oved?

Oved had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015: 1 in 740,000; 5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only: 1 in 383,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 513,148 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Oved 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oved. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Oveds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Oved was born before 2006 — so the typical Oved is around 19 today.

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 75.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 91.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 60; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 75.0% of all recorded uses (45).

Is Oved 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2006 (9)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,773; 1979

Spellings of Oved

Oved is not the most common spelling — Fred is, with 41.8% against Oved's <0.01%.

Fred41.8%343,655
Owen29.9%245,644
Ted9.1%75,160
Reed4.4%36,056
Ed3.2%26,205
Ned2.1%17,292
Oren1.2%9,502
Jed1.1%8,945

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 Oved is used

Across 1910–2025, Oved was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 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. Oved has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Oved by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #6,773; 1979
Peak year: 2006; 9 that year
First recorded: 1979
Last recorded: 2015
All-time count: 60
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Oved

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

Ovel Ove Ovey Nived Ovell Nirved Samved Rigved Daved Javed Anirved Ved Rudved Overton Nedved

Sibling names for Oved

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Taniya Melia Jazmyne Jayna Nyasia Tayla Lanie Estefany

For a brother

Paulo Yair Lavon Tye Deshaun Nathen Britton Mauro

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