Origins

• It is an African (Luo
  Luo (family of ethnic groups)
  The Luo are an ethnic linguistic group located in an area that stretches from South Sudan and Ethiopia through northern Uganda and eastern Congo , into western Kenya, and ending in the upper tip of Tanzania. These people speak an Eastern Sudanic language, a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language...
  
  ) surname. The origin of the name is based on the Luo verb that means “to be bent” or “to be twisted.” It is not an uncommon Luo surname. The name comes from Swahili
  Swahili language
  Swahili or Kiswahili is a Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Mozambique Channel coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique, including the Comoro Islands. It is also spoken by ethnic minority groups in Somalia...
  
   and refers to members of the Luo tribe who converted to Islam.
• Obama (小浜) is also a Japanese surname literally meaning "little beach". The Obama clan (小浜氏) were a samurai clan of feudal Japan.

Notable people with this surname

• Barack Obama
  Barack Obama
  Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
  
  , U.S. President
• Family of Barack Obama, an extended family of American, Kenyan, and Indonesian heritage
  • Barack Obama, Sr.
    Barack Obama, Sr.
    Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of U.S. President Barack Obama. He is a central subject in his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father.-Early life:...
    
     (1936–1982), Kenyan economist and father to Barack Obama
  • Michelle Obama
    Michelle Obama
    Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is the wife of the 44th and incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States...
    
     (born 1964), wife of Barack Obama, and Vice President for Community and External Affairs for the University of Chicago Hospitals
  • Sarah Onyango Obama (born 1922), also known as Sarah Ogwei, the third wife of Barack Obama's paternal grandfather
  • Sarah Obama (aunt of Barack Obama) (born 1933), aunt of Barack Obama and elder sister of his father
• Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfubea
  Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfubea
  Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfubea is a politician from Equatorial Guinea and a member of PDGE. He was Prime Minister from 2006 to 2008. He is a lawyer by profession.Mangue Obama has worked as President Teodoro Obiang Nguema's lawyer...
  
  (born 1961), Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea 2006–2008