Obioma
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Kindhearted
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/obʲioma/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Obioma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 6.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
- MTMalta≈1 in 50K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Kindhearted
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Obioma 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #947 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | listed | Obioma | 71 |
| US United States | — | 229 | 1 in 1.5M | 129 | Obioma | 137 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 748K | listed | Obioma | 46 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 936K | — | Obioma | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Obioma | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 16 | 1 in 638K | 16 | — | 4 |
| MT Malta | #775 | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Obioma | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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)
Obioma 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.
Clean mind, good heart.
as a nameThe African book of names
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)
- Obioma Nnaemekab. 1948NGNigerian academic
- Obioma Nwaorgub. 1948NGDepartment of Parasitology and Entomology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University
- Justus Obioma Joseph Nwachukwa-Agbadab. 1954NGA Nigerian teacher and author (born 1954)
- Obiwub. 1962NGnot in their usual nameNigerian-American writer and professor
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 14 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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
- What does the name Obioma mean, and where does it come from?
- Kindhearted Recorded by The book of African names.
- How do you pronounce Obioma?
- A machine transcription gives /obʲioma/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Obioma a male or female name?
- Obioma is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Obioma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Obioma in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled obioma.
- How common is the name Obioma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 229 people named Obioma in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Obioma compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Obioma is the 947th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/obiomaThe 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, “Obioma” — the 947th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.