Obie

Where Obie comes from

The dictionaries list Obie as a given name — a diminutive of the male given name Obadiah — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #640 among boys — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1899
    Peak, #457
    17 babies named Obie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1917
    Obie Baizley born
    Canadian politician
  4. 1993
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #6,816.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Obadiah.
Namesakes
  • Obie Baizley · Canadian politician, 1917–2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.