Ubah
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ubah is a given name, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- NGNigeria1 in 15K◐
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
- MZMozambique1 in 7.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈21K ◐
- Sources
- 67 ●
- 1 in 7.7K ◐
across 14 countries
13K records
Official registry-verified
Mozambique
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈14K | 8.7K rec. | 1 in 15K | — | Ubah | 34 |
| MZ Mozambique | — | ≈3.9K△ | 8 rec. | 1 in 7.7K | — | Ubah | 1 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈2.1K△ | 322 rec. | 1 in 25K | — | Ubah | 6 |
| US United States | — | ≈216 | 2.8K rec. | 1 in 1.5M | 581 | Ubah | 67 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈83 | 324 rec. | 1 in 796K | — | Ubah | 25 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈38 | 118 rec. | 1 in 980K | 2 | Ubah | 21 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈21 | 29 rec. | 1 in 550K | 10 | Ubah | 6 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈18 | 70 rec. | 1 in 1.4M | 1 | Ubah | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈17 | 68 rec. | 1 in 1M | 12 | Ubah | 7 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈15 | 97 rec. | 1 in 7.1M | — | Ubah | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈15 | 8 rec. | 1 in 567K | — | Ubah | 5 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈13 | 18 rec. | 1 in 668K | 3 | Ubah | 9 |
Roughly 14K people in Nigeria bear this name (about 1 in 15K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English6K74%
- Swahili4355%
- Finnish3154%
- Norwegian Bokmål2864%
- Swedish2313%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 5,989 | 74% |
| Swahili | 435 | 5% |
| Finnish | 315 | 4% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 286 | 4% |
| Swedish | 231 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 63 |
| 2000 | 66 |
| 2001 | 71 |
| 2002 | 69 |
| 2003 | 78 |
| 2004 | 84 |
| 2005 | 87 |
| 2006 | 98 |
| 2007 | 108 |
| 2008 | 118 |
| 2009 | 151 |
| 2010 | 170 |
| 2011 | 180 |
| 2012 | 189 |
| 2013 | 221 |
| 2014 | 227 |
| 2015 | 235 |
| 2016 | 252 |
| 2017 | 258 |
| 2018 | 273 |
| 2019 | 281 |
| 2020 | 281 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ubah Musseb. 1982SOSwedish actress
- Ubah Hassanb. 1987SOSomali model
- Ubah Alib. 1996SOFGM campaigner from Somaliland
- Ubah MohamedUSscreenwriter and story editor
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 581 | #18,362 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 286 | #3,699 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 281 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 281 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 273 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 268 | #4,246 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 258 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 252 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 235 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 227 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 221 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 189 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-06 data build · 62 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ubah?
- We estimate roughly 21 thousand people bear Ubah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ubah have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 14 thousand people bear Ubah in Nigeria, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ubah.
- Where is Ubah most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ubah is densest in Mozambique — about 1 in 7.7 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Ubah compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Ubah is the 709th most common given name of 1,155 given names recorded there.
- Is Ubah a male or female name?
- Ubah is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Ubah” — the 709th most common given name in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.