Obaid

given name · Arabic · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Obaid is a given name, most frequently recorded in Pakistan. In Oman it is the 45th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and Urdu, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic عبيد (Ubayd).

rarermore common
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 2K◐
  • SASaudi Arabia1 in 16K
  • PKPakistan1 in 27K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈427 ●

across 5 countries

Sources
135 ●

33K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 265K ◐

Finland

Meaning & origin●

Borrowed from Arabic عبيد (Ubayd).

Sources 1

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Obaid is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#5626,871808 rec.—listedObaid77
IN India—5,5192.2K rec.—17Obaid58
AE United Arab Emirates#803,7004.4K rec.——Obaid114
IQ Iraq—3,1263.7K rec.—1Obaid28
TR Türkiye—1,4732.6K rec.——Obaid17
SA Saudi Arabia#8911,3721.3K rec.——Obaid100
GB United Kingdom—940760 rec.——Obaid43
OM Oman#45679868 rec.——Obaid29
UA Ukraine—4898 rec.——Obaid4
SY Syria—4172.9K rec.——Obaid22
US United States—3387.8K rec.1 in 984K1.3KObaid135
AU Australia—327563 rec.——Obaid39

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Arabic13K37%
  • Urdu7.7K22%
  • English3.7K11%
  • Hindi2.5K7%
  • 8673%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Arabic12,66737%
Urdu7,67422%
English3,72811%
Hindi2,4987%
8673%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Obaid is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name446 records spelled Obaid10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iraq, Türkiye, Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Обайд, Обаид, Обаїд, Обаід

48 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.

Over time●

01020304020102015202032 · 2019

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Obaid in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2009–2020
Yearrecords
200910
201214
201314
201415
201513
201617
201725
201829
201932
202032

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 10 years between 2009–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 37 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Obaid
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.3K#20,674
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010680#33,530
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—680#4,227
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020338#27,122
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000286#64,934
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—281#3,133
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—210#3,018
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—192#5,378
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—157—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—104#14,669
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—66#6,619
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—54#11,316

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 121 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Obaid?
We estimate roughly 427 people bear Obaid (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Obaid have the most bearers?
Obaid is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled obaid.
How common is Obaid compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Obaid is the 562nd most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
Is Obaid a male or female name?
Obaid 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.
What does the name Obaid mean?
Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic عبيد (Ubayd).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Obaid” — the 562nd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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