Óba

given name · Latin script

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

Óba is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 497 people, counted by IBGE.

  • FIFinland1 in 169K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 426K
  • NONorway1 in 683K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

497 people

Record sources
152 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 169K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Oba in NG Nigeria, US United States, NL Netherlands.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
recorded in Turkish

1. Çadırlarda yaşayan göçebe ailelerin meydana getirdiği topluluk. 2. Genellikle bölmeli göçebe çadırı.

Cited for this meaning 3

  • The African book of names
  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Óba is found

(measured from records)

Óba 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 Óba is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—4971 in 426K497—4
US United States—4781 in 696K533Oba152
FI Finland—331 in 169K33—1
NL Netherlands—231 in 751K23Oba7
ES Spain—191 in 2.6M19—6
NO Norway—81 in 683K8—2
NG Nigeria#908——listedOba62

497 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
190019201940196019802000Sakae Ōba, b. 1914Tsugumi Ohba, b. 1950Mina Ōba, b. 1992
  • Sakae Ōbab. 1914JPImperial Japanese Army officer (1914-1992)
  • Tsugumi Ohbab. 1950JPnot in their usual nameJapanese manga writer
  • Mina Ōbab. 1992JPJapanese singer and SKE48 Team KII member

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Óba under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Óba a male or female name?
Óba is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Óba?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 497 people named Óba, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Finland, Netherlands and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Óba most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Óba is densest in Finland — about 1 in 169 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Óba?
In Brazil, the national register counted 497 people named Óba, about 1 in 426 thousand residents.
How common is Óba compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Óba is the 908th most common surname of 346,007 surnames recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B3ba

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

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, “Óba” — ranked 17206th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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