Obeng

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Obeng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Marshall Islands it is the 15th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 422K(measured from records)
  • VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 101K
  • FIFinland1 in 127K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

788 people, 2010

Sources
206 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)

St. Vincent & Grenadines

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Obeng counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Obeng is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—7881 in 422K1.3KObeng206
ES Spain—1821 in 275K182—12
NL Netherlands—691 in 250K69Obeng20
FI Finland—441 in 127K44—8
BE Belgium—441 in 266K44Obeng22
NO Norway—421 in 130K42—5
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines—11 in 101K1—1
MH Marshall Islands#15———Obeng1

788 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Obeng is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Indonesian, screwdriver

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Letitia Obeng, b. 1925Ernest Obeng, b. 1956Eddie Obeng, b. 1959William Obeng, b. 1983Dennis Obeng, b. 1988Curtis Obeng, b. 1989Helena Obeng, b. 1998
  • Letitia Obengb. 1925GHGhanaian zoologist (1925–2023)
  • Ernest Obengb. 1956GHBritish sprinter of Ghanaian descent
  • Eddie Obengb. 1959GHBritish academic, organizational theorist, educator and author
  • William Obengb. 1983USplayer of American football
  • Dennis Obengb. 1988NONorwegian association football player
  • Curtis Obengb. 1989GBEnglish association football player (born 1989)
  • Helena Obengb. 1998GHGhanaian association football player
  • Jeff ObengUSdigital media entertainer and actor, known for viral video skits featuring the character Mufasa
  • Olivia Obeng OwusuGHGhanaian judge

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Obeng
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#17,923
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#18,645
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—19#12,096
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—15#17,574

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Obeng have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 788 people named Obeng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled obeng.
Where is Obeng most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Obeng is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 101 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Obeng?
In the United States, the national register counted 788 people named Obeng in 2010, about 1 in 422 thousand residents.
How common is Obeng compared with other names?
In Marshall Islands, Obeng is the 15th most common surname of 150 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Obeng” — the 15th most common surname in Marshall Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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