Ovadia
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ovadia is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Hebrew, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Obadias = servant of God; New York, London, Paris, Vevey-Montreux, Milano, Véneto, Siena, Belgrado, Sarajevo, Rousse, Sofia, Alexandria, Port-Said, Rabat, Monastir, Volos, Edirne, Istanbul, Smyrna, Tu.
- USUnited States1 in 668K◐
- HMHeard & McDonald Islands1 in 37K
- ILIsrael1 in 212K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈566 ●
- Sources
- 151 ●
- 1 in 668K ◐
across 7 countries
4.6K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
Obadias = servant of God; New York, London, Paris, Vevey-Montreux, Milano, Véneto, Siena, Belgrado, Sarajevo, Rousse, Sofia, Alexandria, Port-Said, Rabat, Monastir, Volos, Edirne, Istanbul, Smyrna, Turkey, São Paulo, Porto Alegre, Buenos Aires, Bagdad, Salonika, Corfu, Greece
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 3 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 498 | 3.8K rec. | 1 in 668K | 549 | Ovadia | 151 |
| IL Israel | — | 189 | 151 rec. | — | — | Ovadia | 47 |
| AU Australia | — | 152 | 157 rec. | — | — | Ovadia | 24 |
| CA Canada | — | 100 | 102 rec. | — | — | Ovadia | 23 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 98 | 98 rec. | — | — | Ovadia | 24 |
| DE Germany | — | 71 | 33 rec. | — | — | Ovadia | 20 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 44 | 43 rec. | — | — | Ovadia | 13 |
| DZ Algeria | — | 29 | 29 rec. | — | — | Ovadia | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 24 | 0 rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 24 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 21 | 30 rec. | — | listed | Ovadia | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 14 | — | 1 in 2.7M | 14 | — | — |
| FR France | — | 14△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 4.8M | 14 | — | 2 |
Roughly 498 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 668K). 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●
- English3.9K47%
- Hebrew1.4K17%
- Spanish1.2K14%
- French6127%
- Swahili1732%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 3,899 | 47% |
| Hebrew | 1,414 | 17% |
| Spanish | 1,153 | 14% |
| French | 612 | 7% |
| Swahili | 173 | 2% |
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●
Ovadia 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.
Jewish: modern Hebrew form of OBADIAH .
as a word
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2013 | 11 |
| 2014 | 15 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2017 | 17 |
| 2018 | 13 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2020 | 15 |
| 2021 | 13 |
| 2022 | 11 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2024 | 11 |
| 2025 | 12 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 14 years between 2011–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- David Ovadiab. 1923BGBulgarian poet
- Avraham Ovadiab. 1924ILIsraeli writer
- Moni Ovadiab. 1946ITItalian actor, musician, singer and theatrical author
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 29 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 549 | #42,533 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 498 | #43,369 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 381 | #51,352 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #111,562 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 13 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 70 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ovadia?
- We estimate roughly 566 people bear Ovadia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ovadia have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 498 people bear Ovadia in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ovadia.
- How common is Ovadia compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Ovadia is the 552nd most common surname of 882 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Ovadia mean?
- Recorded meaning: Obadias = servant of God; New York, London, Paris, Vevey-Montreux, Milano, Véneto, Siena, Belgrado, Sarajevo, Rousse, Sofia, Alexandria, Port-Said, Rabat, Monastir, Volos, Edirne, Istanbul, Smyrna, Tu…
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ovadia” — the 552nd most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.