Obeng
surname · Akan · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Obeng is a surname, most frequently recorded in Ghana. It appears chiefly in Akan and English, written in the Latin script.
- GHGhana1 in 89◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 140K
- USUnited States1 in 386K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | 141,421 | 93% |
| US United States | 6,860 | 4% |
| GB United Kingdom | 1,376 | 1% |
| ES Spain | 602 | 1% |
| MY Malaysia | 539 | 1% |
≈150,798 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Akan139K91%
- English11K7%
- Spanish5761%
- Welsh4891%
- Malay4451%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Akan | 138,862 | 91% |
| English | 10,816 | 7% |
| Spanish | 576 | 1% |
| Welsh | 489 | 1% |
| Malay | 445 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Letitia Obengb. 1925GHGhanaian zoologist (1925–2023)
- Ernest Obengb. 1956GHBritish sprinter of Ghanaian descent
- Eddie Obengb. 1959GHBritish academic, organizational theorist, educator and author
- William Obengb. 1983USplayer of American football
- Dennis Obengb. 1988NONorwegian association football player
- Curtis Obengb. 1989GBEnglish association football player (born 1989)
- Helena Obengb. 1998GHGhanaian association football player
- Jeff ObengUSdigital media entertainer and actor, known for viral video skits featuring the character Mufasa
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 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | Ghana top-100 surnames (surnam.es) | — | 139K | #18 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,034 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 788 | #29,822 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 293 | #63,632 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 182 | #17,813 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 182 | #17,724 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 69 | #25,044 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 44 | #28,599 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 44 | #30,560 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 42 | #29,521 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 33 | #17,608 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #22,486 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 2026-09-03 data build · 33 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Obeng?
- Our records include 150,798 bearers of Obeng across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Obeng have the most bearers?
- Obeng is most frequently recorded in Ghana.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Obeng”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.