Ebba

Where Ebba comes from

Ebba hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1888
    Debut at its peak, #593
    #593 among girls with 18 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1907
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,384.
  3. 1987
    Ebba Jungmark born
    Swedish high jumper
  4. 1997
    Ebba Andersson born
    Swedish female cross-country skier
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ebba Andersson · Swedish female cross-country skier, born 1997
  • Ebba Jungmark · Swedish high jumper, born 1987
  • Ebba Brahe · Swedish nobleman, 1596–1674
  • Ebba Witt-Brattström · Swedish literary scholar and feminist, born 1953
  • Ebba Bernadotte · Swedish noble, 1858–1946

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.