Meaning not yet researched.
Obadiah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 104 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,414 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,414 in 2024; #1,630 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Obadiah in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,630 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,414.
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Obadiah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 104 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,414 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 131 (2024).
In 2025, 104 US boys were named Obadiah, making it the 1,630th most common boys’ name of the year, down 216 places from #1,414 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 131 boys named Obadiah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,414, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 131. For comparison, it was #1,689 in 2015 and #3,585 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Obadiah in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 2,521 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 810 babies named Obadiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,073 US boys were named Obadiah; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 131. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,424 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Obadiah ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #824 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Obediah and Obidiah are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Diah, Dyer, Obed and Obie.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Obediah (226), Obidiah (16).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 7 | #824 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #920 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,076 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,385 | — |
| Texas | 14 | #1,397 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,492 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,390 | #1,997 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 104 | #1,630 |
| 2024 | — | — | 131 | #1,414 |
| 2023 | — | — | 113 | #1,554 |
| 2022 | — | — | 124 | #1,464 |
| 2021 | — | — | 99 | #1,676 |
| 2020 | — | — | 105 | #1,566 |
| 2019 | — | — | 96 | #1,673 |
| 2018 | — | — | 97 | #1,661 |
| 2017 | — | — | 97 | #1,639 |
| 2016 | — | — | 107 | #1,553 |
| 2015 | — | — | 93 | #1,689 |
| 2014 | — | — | 72 | #1,993 |
| 2013 | — | — | 69 | #2,005 |
| 2012 | — | — | 69 | #2,027 |
| 2011 | — | — | 54 | #2,367 |
| 2010 | — | — | 56 | #2,313 |
| 2009 | — | — | 53 | #2,438 |
| 2008 | — | — | 33 | #3,403 |
| 2007 | — | — | 37 | #3,119 |
| 2006 | — | — | 41 | #2,812 |
| 2005 | — | — | 36 | #2,944 |
| 2004 | — | — | 26 | #3,608 |
| 2003 | — | — | 30 | #3,173 |
| 2002 | — | — | 29 | #3,164 |
| 2001 | — | — | 26 | #3,386 |
| 2000 | — | — | 35 | #2,662 |
| 1999 | — | — | 20 | #3,797 |
| 1998 | — | — | 25 | #3,162 |
| 1997 | — | — | 14 | #4,614 |
| 1996 | — | — | 23 | #3,179 |
| 1995 | — | — | 21 | #3,274 |
| 1994 | — | — | 17 | #3,856 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,172 |
| 1992 | — | — | 19 | #3,421 |
| 1991 | — | — | 18 | #3,421 |
| 1990 | — | — | 14 | #4,123 |
| 1989 | — | — | 24 | #2,667 |
| 1988 | — | — | 14 | #3,652 |
| 1987 | — | — | 15 | #3,297 |
| 1986 | — | — | 15 | #3,232 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,257 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,861 |
| 1983 | — | — | 16 | #2,878 |
| 1982 | — | — | 19 | #2,574 |
| 1981 | — | — | 21 | #2,390 |
| 1980 | — | — | 21 | #2,424 |
| 1979 | — | — | 24 | #2,140 |
| 1978 | — | — | 21 | #2,256 |
| 1977 | — | — | 12 | #3,326 |
| 1976 | — | — | 12 | #3,208 |
| 1975 | — | — | 16 | #2,608 |
| 1974 | — | — | 22 | #2,032 |
| 1973 | — | — | 12 | #2,974 |
| 1972 | — | — | 14 | #2,627 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,580 |
| 1970 | — | — | 10 | #3,213 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,834 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,363 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,559 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,348 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,384 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,774 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,206 |
| 1953 | — | — | 8 | #3,075 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,585 |
| 1949 | — | — | 9 | #2,747 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #4,039 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,643 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,906 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,865 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,379 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,421 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,920 |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,540 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,056 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #4,008 |
| 1932 | — | — | 7 | #3,282 |
| 1929 | — | — | 7 | #3,457 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,569 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #3,074 |
| 1924 | — | — | 9 | #3,187 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,380 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,773 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,410 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #4,046 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,611 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).