Ebenezer

Where Ebenezer comes from

From Hebrew אֶבֶן הָעֵזֶר (éven ha`ézer, “stone of help”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Ebenezer
  • 4 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1831
    Ebenezer Cobb Morley born
    English sportsman
  2. 1850
    Ebenezer Howard born
    British writer, founder of the garden city movement
  3. 1884
    Debut at its peak, #764
    #764 among boys with 7 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  4. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew taken up by Puritans in the 17th century.
Namesakes
  • Ebenezer Howard · British writer, founder of the garden city movement, 1850–1928
  • Ebenezer Cobb Morley · English sportsman, 1831–1924
  • Ebenezer Assifuah · Ghanaian footballer, born 1993
  • Ebenezer Ofori · Ghanaian footballer, born 1995
  • Ebenezer Elliott · British poet, 1781–1849

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.