Meaning not yet researched.
Obed: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 72 in 2025. Its best rank was #883 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #883 in 1880; #2,072 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Obed in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,072 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #883.
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Obed: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 72 boys in 2025. Peak: #883 in 1880 · most boys in one year: 137 (2005).
In 2025, 72 US boys were named Obed, making it the 2,072nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 122 places from #1,950 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 81 boys named Obed in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #883, reached in 1880. The most boys given the name in a single year was 137, in 2005. For comparison, it was #1,750 in 2015 and #2,955 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Obed in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 4,135 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,083 babies named Obed.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 773 US boys were named Obed; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 97. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Obed ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #1,006 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Obaid are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Obaid (15).
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.
No nicknames listed for Obed in the open dataset we use.
Obed is listed as a nickname for Obadiah.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 5 | #1,006 | — |
| Texas | 13 | #1,458 | #1,186 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,020 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,391 | #1,428 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 72 | #2,072 |
| 2024 | — | — | 81 | #1,950 |
| 2023 | — | — | 84 | #1,888 |
| 2022 | — | — | 84 | #1,885 |
| 2021 | — | — | 83 | #1,865 |
| 2020 | — | — | 68 | #2,088 |
| 2019 | — | — | 68 | #2,123 |
| 2018 | — | — | 74 | #1,990 |
| 2017 | — | — | 62 | #2,182 |
| 2016 | — | — | 97 | #1,651 |
| 2015 | — | — | 88 | #1,750 |
| 2014 | — | — | 94 | #1,649 |
| 2013 | — | — | 99 | #1,576 |
| 2012 | — | — | 93 | #1,664 |
| 2011 | — | — | 100 | #1,572 |
| 2010 | — | — | 114 | #1,454 |
| 2009 | — | — | 117 | #1,441 |
| 2008 | — | — | 110 | #1,489 |
| 2007 | — | — | 118 | #1,397 |
| 2006 | — | — | 114 | #1,399 |
| 2005 | — | — | 137 | #1,168 |
| 2004 | — | — | 98 | #1,439 |
| 2003 | — | — | 95 | #1,407 |
| 2002 | — | — | 96 | #1,380 |
| 2001 | — | — | 87 | #1,438 |
| 2000 | — | — | 111 | #1,219 |
| 1999 | — | — | 71 | #1,571 |
| 1998 | — | — | 59 | #1,736 |
| 1997 | — | — | 63 | #1,623 |
| 1996 | — | — | 77 | #1,385 |
| 1995 | — | — | 58 | #1,597 |
| 1994 | — | — | 58 | #1,596 |
| 1993 | — | — | 62 | #1,507 |
| 1992 | — | — | 41 | #1,973 |
| 1991 | — | — | 64 | #1,426 |
| 1990 | — | — | 46 | #1,747 |
| 1989 | — | — | 41 | #1,850 |
| 1988 | — | — | 40 | #1,760 |
| 1987 | — | — | 37 | #1,784 |
| 1986 | — | — | 26 | #2,205 |
| 1985 | — | — | 33 | #1,827 |
| 1984 | — | — | 28 | #1,962 |
| 1983 | — | — | 28 | #1,941 |
| 1982 | — | — | 31 | #1,842 |
| 1981 | — | — | 33 | #1,754 |
| 1980 | — | — | 29 | #1,944 |
| 1979 | — | — | 31 | #1,821 |
| 1978 | — | — | 20 | #2,351 |
| 1977 | — | — | 17 | #2,627 |
| 1976 | — | — | 21 | #2,219 |
| 1975 | — | — | 15 | #2,720 |
| 1974 | — | — | 18 | #2,335 |
| 1973 | — | — | 25 | #1,809 |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,281 |
| 1971 | — | — | 13 | #2,772 |
| 1970 | — | — | 14 | #2,597 |
| 1969 | — | — | 12 | #2,647 |
| 1968 | — | — | 15 | #2,166 |
| 1967 | — | — | 15 | #2,104 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,454 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,285 |
| 1964 | — | — | 21 | #1,778 |
| 1963 | — | — | 12 | #2,501 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,536 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,654 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,811 |
| 1959 | — | — | 13 | #2,381 |
| 1958 | — | — | 12 | #2,467 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,855 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #3,127 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,916 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,207 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,200 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,098 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,955 |
| 1949 | — | — | 8 | #2,954 |
| 1948 | — | — | 8 | #2,946 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,640 |
| 1946 | — | — | 10 | #2,502 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,220 |
| 1943 | — | — | 10 | #2,512 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,921 |
| 1941 | — | — | 10 | #2,446 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,803 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,893 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,413 |
| 1936 | — | — | 9 | #2,571 |
| 1935 | — | — | 11 | #2,353 |
| 1934 | — | — | 13 | #2,092 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #4,009 |
| 1932 | — | — | 11 | #2,424 |
| 1931 | — | — | 8 | #3,020 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #2,943 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,907 |
| 1928 | — | — | 8 | #3,283 |
| 1927 | — | — | 18 | #1,932 |
| 1926 | — | — | 12 | #2,521 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #3,076 |
| 1924 | — | — | 18 | #1,949 |
| 1923 | — | — | 17 | #2,003 |
| 1922 | — | — | 18 | #1,937 |
| 1921 | — | — | 12 | #2,591 |
| 1920 | — | — | 15 | #2,196 |
| 1919 | — | — | 15 | #2,123 |
| 1918 | — | — | 16 | #2,047 |
| 1917 | — | — | 10 | #2,669 |
| 1916 | — | — | 17 | #1,821 |
| 1915 | — | — | 10 | #2,568 |
| 1914 | — | — | 11 | #2,067 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,474 |
| 1910 | — | — | 8 | #1,279 |
| 1909 | — | — | 6 | #1,403 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,258 |
| 1894 | — | — | 5 | #1,192 |
| 1880 | — | — | 6 | #883 |
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).