Obie
Obie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. Its best rank was 468th, in 1899.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192488 births
- Best rank
- #468in 1899
- Since 1880
- 4,426people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,155 boys have been named Obie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 88 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1938, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 68 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 271 girls have also been given it, 6.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Obie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 74 | |
| 1890s | 118 | |
| 1900s | 162 | |
| 1910s | 556 | |
| 1920s | 680 | |
| 1930s | 559 | |
| 1940s | 522 | |
| 1950s | 407 | |
| 1960s | 282 | |
| 1970s | 244 | |
| 1980s | 142 | |
| 1990s | 67 | |
| 2000s | 141 | |
| 2010s | 118 | |
| 2020s | 83 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Obie was the 702nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Obie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Haywoodpeak 1919
- Otispeak 1920
- Sylvesterpeak 1920
- Elmorepeak 1918
- Rupertpeak 1920
- Ennispeak 1922
- Earnestpeak 1926
- Burrellpeak 1919
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.