Obama
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Obama is a surname, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Equatorial Guinea it is the 8th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: An African surname from Luo.
- ESSpain1 in 90K◐
- GQEquatorial Guinea1 in 90
- GNGuinea1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈763 ●
- Sources
- 98 ●
- 1 in 90K ◐
across 5 countries
1.6K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Meaning & origin●
An African surname from Luo.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 554 | 484 rec. | 1 in 90K | 554 | Obama | 47 |
| FR France | — | 554 | 502 rec. | — | — | Obama | 98 |
| US United States | — | 159 | 109 rec. | 1 in 2.1M | 159 | Obama | 48 |
| GQ Equatorial Guinea | #8 | 95 | 135 rec. | — | 110 | Obama | 17 |
| BR Brazil | — | 36 | — | 1 in 5.9M | 36 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 27 | 30 rec. | — | — | Obama | 4 |
| CM Cameroon | — | 24 | 38 rec. | — | — | Obama | 10 |
| CL Chile | — | 24 | 23 rec. | — | — | Obama | 3 |
| CO Colombia | — | 22 | 22 rec. | — | — | Obama | 7 |
| MX Mexico | — | 20 | 20 rec. | — | — | Obama | 5 |
| CN China | — | 16 | 2 rec. | — | — | Obama | 4 |
| PE Peru | — | 13 | 6 rec. | — | — | Obama | 4 |
Roughly 554 people in Spain bear this name (about 1 in 90K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English7K50%
- Spanish1.9K14%
- Polish1.5K11%
- Swahili9197%
- French6475%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 7,012 | 50% |
| Spanish | 1,938 | 14% |
| Polish | 1,498 | 11% |
| Swahili | 919 | 7% |
| French | 647 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Obama is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, a surname from Luo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, masculine/neuter dative/locative/instrumental of ȍba
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, the 44ᵗʰ president of the USA; Obama
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
- Barack Obamab. 1934KEeconomist and father of Barack Obama Jr. (1934–1982)
- Francisco Pascual Obama Asueb. 1949GQPrime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (2016-present)
- Malik Obamab. 1958KEKenyan-American businessman and politician
- Auma Obamab. 1960KEKenyan-British community activist, sociologist, journalist and author
- Barack Obamab. 1961US44th President of the United States (2009–2017)
- Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfubeab. 1961GQEquatoguinean politician
- Michelle Obamab. 1964USlawyer and former First Lady of the United States (2009-2017)
- Bernard Obamab. 1970half-brother of Barack Obama
- Malia Obamab. 1998USdaughter of former US President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama
- Sasha Obamab. 2001USdaughter of former US President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama
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 23 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 26 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Obama?
- We estimate roughly 763 people bear Obama (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Obama have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 554 people bear Obama in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled obama.
- How common is Obama compared with other names?
- In Equatorial Guinea, Obama is the 8th most common surname of 199 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Obama mean?
- Recorded meaning: An African surname from Luo.
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About this data
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, “Obama” — the 8th most common surname in Equatorial Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.