Obi is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Obie, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Obi: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,261 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,261 in 2022; #3,823 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Obi in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,823 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #3,261.
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Obi: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,261 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 37 (2023).
In 2025, 29 US boys were named Obi, making it the 3,823rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 44 places from #3,867 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 29 boys named Obi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,261, reached in 2022. The most boys given the name in a single year was 37, in 2023. For comparison, it was #7,888 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Obi in 18 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2007 with 7 babies. In all, 299 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 181 babies named Obi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 225 US boys were named Obi; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 58,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Obie (4,436 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Obi in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).