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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Obie

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

#8,065

down −2,678 places

2025 births

10

down −8 births

All-time births

4,165

0% of them in 2025

More common than

96%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1924
88 births
Best rank
#468
in 1899
First recorded
1880
#670 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1944
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
144 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 192488#702Peak
  2. 191780#672
  3. 192079#735
  4. 192377#748
  5. 191976#736

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #468 in 1899 · peak births 88 in 1924

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 94% boys■ 6% girls

4,165 boys · 271 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Obie has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.