Obdulia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Del árabe Abdullah: 'sierva de Dios'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/obdulja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Obdulia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 9.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 10K
- PEPeru≈1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,405 people
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Del árabe Abdullah: 'sierva de Dios'.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Where in the world(measured from records)
Obdulia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 4,405 | 1 in 11K | 4.9K | Obdulia | 76 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Obdulia | 34 |
| US United States | — | 3,073 | 1 in 108K | 3.1K | Obdulia | 159 |
| VE Venezuela | #916 | 2,380 | 1 in 12K | 2.4K | Obdulia | 18 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 3 | Obdulia | 36 |
| PY Paraguay | #635 | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Obdulia | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | #372 | 332 | 1 in 10K | 332 | Obdulia | 11 |
4,405 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- La Busdongab. 1896ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer
- Obdulia Éboleb. 1918UYUruguayan writer (1918-1990)
- Miriam Learrab. 1936CUnot in their usual nameCuban actress
- Obdulia Torres Abarcab. 1961MXMexican politician
- Obdulia Taboadelab. 1964ESSpanish politician
- Obdulia Diniz Carlosb. 1964ESSpanish politician
- Obdulia Rabalb. 2000ESresearcher
- Obdulia LunaECfirst Ecuadorian female lawyer
- Obdulia Durán de DíazUYUruguayan writer
- Obduliamartyr
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.9K | #465 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.4K | #972 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.1K | #5,544 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 2.4K | #658 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 332 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 330 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1945 | 29 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1945 | 29 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1939 | 29 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1939 | 29 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1944 | 26 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1944 | 26 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Obdulia mean, and where does it come from?
- Del árabe Abdullah: 'sierva de Dios'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Obdulia?
- A machine transcription gives /obdulja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Obdulia a male or female name?
- Obdulia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Obdulia have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Obdulia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled obdulia.
- How common is the name Obdulia?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,405 people named Obdulia, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Obdulia compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Obdulia is the 372nd most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/obduliaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Obdulia” — the 372nd most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.