Oba is the Yoruba orisha of the river that bears her name, a goddess of devotion and strength.
Her name is warm, watery and full of quiet resolve.
Oba does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Oba reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.