Obai
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A chief of the Temne people of Sierra Leone
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɒbaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Obai is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 175K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 268K
- DKDenmark1 in 652K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Obai itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 175K (inferred from the name graph)
≈48 named ওবাই, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A chief of the Temne people of Sierra Leone.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Obai 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | — | Obai | 5 |
| SE Sweden | 38 | 1 in 268K | 38 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 9 | 1 in 652K | 9 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Ubay ibn Ka'bb. 600SAnot in their usual nameSahaba
- Ubay ibn Khalafb. 600SAnot in their usual namean opponent of Muhammad
- Ubay Luzardob. 1983ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Ubai Dahoudnot in their usual nameactor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #80,486 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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
- What does the name Obai mean, and where does it come from?
- A chief of the Temne people of Sierra Leone. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Obai?
- A machine transcription gives /ɒbaɪ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Obai a male or female name?
- Obai 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.
- In which country does Obai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 48 people named ওবাই in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Obai most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Obai is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 175 thousand people — even though Bangladesh holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Obai?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 38 people named Obai, about 1 in 268 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Obai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/obaiThe 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, “Obai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.