Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Obe

#17,440 most common boys' name of all time · #45,585 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1881–1948

Rank among boys
#17,440
Rank overall
#45,585 of 105,966
First appeared
1881
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
73
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1916 #2,754
Best rank
#861 1881
Girls Boys peak 9/yr
190019201940

Obe first appears in 1881. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1948 — 6 6 #3,349
1926 — 6 6 #3,748
1925 — 6 6 #3,773
1924 — 6 6 #3,897
1923 — 5 5 #4,282
1922 — 7 7 #3,560
1920 — 5 5 #4,326
1916 — 9 9 #2,754
1915 — 7 7 #3,110
1884 — 5 5 #1,036
1882 — 5 5 #1,016
1881 — 6 6 #861