In 2025, 17 US boys were named Obaida, making it the 5,543rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,019 places from #4,524 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 23 boys named Obaida in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,524, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 23. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Obaida in 5 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2013 with 6 babies. In all, 58 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 46 babies named Obaida.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 52 US boys were named Obaida; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.