Obi
32
Babies in 2024
+220%
10-year change
2022
Peak · 43
-16%
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 Obi
Obi is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (32) are up 220% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Obi reached its peak in 2022, when 43 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #758 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 32 represents 74% of the peak.
Across 26 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 380 boys have been officially registered with the name Obi in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 279 boys were registered with the name, starting from 10 in 2014 and ending at 32 in 2024.