Ebb
Last seen for boys in 1955 at #3,886
- Peak · boys
- 1890 · 13 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 247since 1881
Ebb over time
Rank among boys' names. Ebb has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1955 | #3,886 | 5 |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,143 | 7 |
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| 1950 | #3,329 | 6 |
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| 1942 | #2,712 | 8 |
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| 1939 | #3,113 | 6 |
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| 1936 | #3,549 | 5 |
| 1935 | #2,951 | 7 |
| 1934 | #3,679 | 5 |
| 1933 | — | |
| 1932 | #2,849 | 8 |
| 1931 | #3,095 | 7 |
| 1930 | #3,592 | 6 |
| 1929 | #3,247 | 7 |
| 1928 | #3,076 | 8 |
| 1927 | #4,210 | 5 |
| 1926 | #3,708 | 6 |
| 1925 | #2,755 | 10 |
| 1924 | #3,867 | 6 |
| 1923 | — | |
| 1922 | #3,532 | 7 |
| 1921 | #4,322 | 5 |
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| 1919 | #3,115 | 8 |
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| 1916 | #3,177 | 7 |
| 1915 | #3,082 | 7 |
| 1914 | #1,975 | 11 |
| 1913 | #2,273 | 7 |
| 1912 | #2,045 | 7 |
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| 1907 | #1,200 | 6 |
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| 1902 | #1,013 | 6 |
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| 1900 | #1,310 | 5 |
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| 1890 | #533 | 13 |
| 1889 | #974 | 5 |
| 1888 | #917 | 6 |
| 1887 | #921 | 5 |
| 1886 | #694 | 8 |
| 1885 | #936 | 5 |
| 1884 | #848 | 6 |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | #837 | 6 |
| 1881 | #866 | 5 |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Ebb! It came in at #866, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1883, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Ebb is popular in 1890
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Ebb
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1955
- Biggest jump: 441 spots in 1890 (#974 → #533)
- Biggest drop: 227 spots in 1887 (#694 → #921)
- Debuted 1881
- Peaked 1890 at #533 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1891, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 1884–1890
- Highest: 1 in 8,540 boys born in 1890 were named Ebb (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 411,978 boys born in 1955 (0.00%)
- 21.9% of all boys named Ebb (54) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 46 | #694 (1886) | #874 |
| 1890s | 13 | #533 (1890) | #533 |
| 1900s | 17 | #1,013 (1902) | #1,174 |
| 1910s | 47 | #1,975 (1914) | #2,611 |
| 1920s | 54 | #2,755 (1925) | #3,590 |
| 1930s | 44 | #2,849 (1932) | #3,261 |
| 1940s | 8 | #2,712 (1942) | #2,712 |
| 1950s | 18 | #3,143 (1953) | #3,453 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ebb in 1890
Top boys' names in 1890
More about 1890
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111,024 boys got a published name in 1890; 1 in 8,540 of them was named Ebb, which outranked 54.1% of the 1,161 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 38.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).