Obinna
An African name meaning "heart of the father". In Poland it stays rare: most Poles have never met anyone who carries it, and no baby was given it last year.
Obinna Pronunciation
Obinna is pronounced o-BEEN-nah (/ɔˈbinna/).
What Obinna means
Where Obinna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Obinna comes from the Igbo language of southeastern Nigeria, where "obi" means heart and "nna" means father. Put together, the name reads as heart of the father. It belongs to a naming practice in which a child arrives already holding a sentence, a small declaration in Igbo that the family speaks every time they call across a room.
Among Igbo families the name often marks a boy who resembles his father or his grandfather. The meaning is literal here, not a later gloss. Heart of the father says what it says.
In Poland the name turns up through footballers and through families with Nigerian roots. A teacher reading a class register in Wrocław may meet an Obinna between an Oskar and an Ola. The name has no Polish diminutive and no cross-gender variant. It stays as it is, four letters of Igbo grammar sitting on a form at the urząd, still meaning heart of the father.
How many people are named Obinna
1 in 576924 men in Poland is named Obinna. 37 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6496 among male names.
Obinna as a middle name
Obinna is a first name for 37 men in Poland and a middle name for another 66, a 36/64 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 893rd, between Lucien (66) and Salim (66).
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#891 João66
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#892 Lucien66
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#893 Obinna66
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#894 Salim66
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#895 Stan66