Obe
Obe was last recorded in 1948, when 6 babies were given it; 73 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Obe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Obe?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,569, in 1948; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1916, the peak
Obe peaked in 1916, when 9 boys were given it, #2,868 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 6 | #3,569 | 3.4 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,057 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,067 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,207 | 5.3 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,708 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,772 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,776 | 4.7 |
| 1916 | 9 | #2,868 | 10.1 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,295 | 8.2 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,080 | 43.7 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1882 | 5 | #1,051 | 44.0 |
| 1881 | 6 | #840 | 59.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Obe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Obe has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Obe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Obe, and how old are they?
An estimated 3 Americans named Obe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 123 people named Obe (26 women and girls, 97 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Obe rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,171 babies since 1880, Obe is the fourth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 39 babies recorded by SSA was a Obe (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Obe and names like it
- Compare Obe and ObieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sObe peaked in 1916.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Obe.
- Names starting with OMost given first.