Obanion

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/oʊˈbænjən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Obanion is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 174K(measured from records)
  • CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 16K
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 74K

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,912 people, 2010

Sources
172 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)

Côte d’Ivoire, est.

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:

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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Obanion 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 Obanion is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,9121 in 174K1.9KObanion172
CI Côte d’Ivoire≈1,800 est.≈1 in 16K—Obanion1
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈1,400 est.≈1 in 74K—Obanion1
IT Italy≈230 est.≈1 in 276K—Obanion1
TN Tunisia≈160 est.≈1 in 74K—Obanion1
GT Guatemala≈110 est.≈1 in 159K—Obanion2
SG Singapore≈45 est.≈1 in 138K—Obanion1

1,912 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 2000. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Obanion is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written O'Banion

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written O'Banion

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Obanion,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Obanion
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.9K#14,292
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.9K#15,340
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.8K#15,346
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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

How do you pronounce Obanion?
A machine transcription gives /oʊˈbænjən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Obanion have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Obanion, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled obanion.
How common is the name Obanion?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,912 people named Obanion in 2010, about 1 in 174 thousand residents.

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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, “Obanion”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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