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How popular is the name Obie?
Births per year, rank history and how many Obies are alive today.
Obie (male) is a rare spelling of the boys' name Obi in England and Wales, ranked 1093rd in 2025 and given to 27 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2022, when 45 babies were given the name, the 731st most popular that year.
Across all spellings of the name, the Obi you are most likely to meet is around 3 years old. Half of all Obis born in England and Wales are between 3 and 12, and there are at least 820 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Obi - on average, only one in every 370 such rooms contains a Obi.
How many babies are named Obie each year?
Includes all spellings: Obie, Obi. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Obie spelling rank?
Where does the Obi spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Obie most popular?
The most popular form of the name, Obi, peaked in 2022, when 88 babies in England and Wales were given the name. The Obie spelling itself peaked in 2022, with 45 babies.
How many people are called Obie?
At least 820 people named Obie in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Obie?
Most living Obies are between 3 and 12; the most common age is about 3.
Is Obie becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.