Obadiah
6
Babies in 2024
+20%
10-year change
2019
Peak · 9
-14%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Obadiah
Obadiah appears in the official UK boys' name list for 2024, ranked #3,254 with 6 boys registered in England & Wales.
Obadiah reached its peak in 2019, when 9 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #2,266 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 6 represents 67% of the peak.
Across 16 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 81 boys have been officially registered with the name Obadiah in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 57 boys were registered with the name, starting from 5 in 2014 and ending at 6 in 2024.