Obana
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɒbænə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Obana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 201K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 283K
- BRBrazil1 in 980K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 201K (inferred from the name graph)
≈950 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Obana 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 283K | — | Obana | 2 |
| PH Philippines | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 201K | — | Obana | 29 |
| BR Brazil | 216 | 1 in 980K | 216 | Obana | 45 |
| US United States | 202 | 1 in 1.6M | 228 | Obana | 43 |
| CA Canada | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Obana | 5 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Obana is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In goh, above
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta Lielbritānijā, Skotijā, Fērtoflorna austrumu krastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Masahiro Obanab. 1953JPJapanese politician
- Takao Obanab. 1957JPbaseball player
- Shinako ObanaJPJapanese actress and voice actress
- Yuki ObanaJPresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-7291-3648
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 228 | #87,624 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 216 | #34,510 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 202 | #91,221 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 158 | #104,819 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname 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
- How do you pronounce Obana?
- A machine transcription gives /ɒbænə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Obana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 945 people named Obana in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled obana.
- How common is the name Obana?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 216 people named Obana, about 1 in 980 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Obana?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/obanaThe 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, “Obana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.