Entry № 7697 · Igbo origin

Obioma Obioma — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ oh-bee-OH-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Igbo
Meaning
"Kind heart (Igbo)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Igbo)

A name that means "kind heart (igbo)".

Chigozie Obioma (born 1986) is the Nigerian Booker-shortlisted novelist of The Fishermen.

Kind heart. The Igbo.

The name in its native script.

Obioma
Transliteration
Obioma
Pronunciation
/ ˌoʊ.biˈoʊ.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Obioma stands.

Obioma 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.

Obiomas before her.

Real people
Chigozie Obioma
Nigerian novelist.
born 1986
In fiction

Names connected to Obioma.

The number behind Obioma.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Obioma reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.