Ebenezer
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #15,088 · #2,539 for boys in 2025, 52 births
Given to boys 97.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1884 · 7 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,216since 1884
Ebenezer over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Ebenezer has never cracked the top 700 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,539 | 52 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,595 | 51 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,510 | 53 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,412 | 34 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,732 | 46 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #2,925 | 40 |
| 2019 | — | #2,993 | 40 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #2,635 | 47 |
| 2017 | — | #2,345 | 55 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #2,838 | 42 |
| 2015 | — | #2,528 | 49 | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #2,705 | 44 |
| 2013 | — | #2,763 | 42 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,551 | 48 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,798 | 42 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #3,128 | 36 |
| 2009 | — | #3,721 | 28 | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #3,921 | 26 |
| 2007 | — | #3,188 | 35 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,686 | 27 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,615 | 26 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,217 | 30 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,976 | 21 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,794 | 22 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,302 | 18 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,764 | 21 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,035 | 13 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,159 | 12 | |
| 1997 | — | #6,618 | 8 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,613 | 13 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,508 | 13 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,452 | 10 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,228 | 8 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,872 | 11 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,760 | 11 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,382 | 9 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,809 | 14 | |
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | #4,457 | 9 | |
| 1985 | — | — | ||
| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
| 1981 | — | — | ||
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
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| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
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| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
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| 1938 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
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| 1927 | — | #3,451 | 7 | |
| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
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| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
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| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
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| 1912 | — | #2,269 | 6 | |
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| 1884 | — | #764 | 7 | |
| 1883 | — | — | ||
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
First appearance
1884
The first year at least five boys were named Ebenezer! It came in at #764, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1885–1911, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 56 spots since 2024 (#2,595 → #2,539)
- 386 spots since 2020 (#2,925 → #2,539)
- 11 spots since 2015 (#2,528 → #2,539)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
- Debuted 1884
- Peaked 1884 at #764 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1885, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1884
Share of babies · boys
1 in 16,349
- Highest: 1 in 16,349 boys born in 1884 were named Ebenezer (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,848 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 36.6% of all boys named Ebenezer (445) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | #764 (1884) | #764 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 12 | #2,269 (1912) | #2,999 |
| 1920s | 27 | #3,451 (1927) | #4,096 |
| 1930s | 9 | #2,479 (1938) | #2,479 |
| 1940s | 7 | #2,919 (1946) | #2,919 |
| 1950s | 5 | #3,993 (1957) | #3,993 |
| 1960s | 11 | #3,673 (1968) | #4,039 |
| 1970s | 7 | #4,554 (1978) | #4,554 |
| 1980s | 48 | #3,809 (1989) | #5,003 |
| 1990s | 108 | #4,508 (1995) | #5,263 |
| 2000s | 254 | #3,188 (2007) | #3,718 |
| 2010s | 445 | #2,345 (2017) | #2,728 |
| 2020s | 276 | #2,510 (2023) | #2,786 |
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.
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