Ebba
#4,987 for girls in 2025, 26 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 97.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1888 · 18 births
- Debut · girls
- 18 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 925since 1888
Ebba over time
Rank among girls' names. Ebba 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
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,987 | 26 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | — | |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | — | |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 | — | |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | — | |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | — | |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 | — | |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | — | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | — | |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | — | |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | — | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | — | |
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| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | — | |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | — | |
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| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | — | |
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| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | — | |
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| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 | — | |
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| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | — | |
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| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
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| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 | — | |
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| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 | — | |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | — | |
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| 1933 | #3,109 | 8 | — | |
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| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 | — | |
| 1929 | #3,682 | 7 | — | |
| 1928 | #3,164 | 9 | — | |
| 1927 | #3,875 | 7 | — | |
| 1926 | #2,708 | 12 | — | |
| 1925 | #2,378 | 15 | — | |
| 1924 | #2,973 | 11 | — | |
| 1923 | #2,465 | 14 | — | |
| 1922 | #2,479 | 14 | — | |
| 1921 | #2,509 | 14 | — | |
| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 | — | |
| 1919 | #1,801 | 21 | — | |
| 1918 | #1,805 | 21 | — | |
| 1917 | #1,552 | 24 | — | |
| 1916 | #1,485 | 25 | — | |
| 1915 | #1,439 | 25 | — | |
| 1914 | #1,444 | 20 | — | |
| 1913 | #1,766 | 12 | — | |
| 1912 | #1,297 | 17 | — | |
| 1911 | #1,113 | 16 | — | |
| 1910 | #1,773 | 8 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,369 | 10 | — | |
| 1908 | #1,676 | 7 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,384 | 9 | — | |
| 1906 | #1,229 | 10 | — | |
| 1905 | #1,011 | 14 | — | |
| 1904 | #1,092 | 11 | — | |
| 1903 | #760 | 20 | — | |
| 1902 | #773 | 20 | — | |
| 1901 | #747 | 19 | — | |
| 1900 | #760 | 23 | — | |
| 1899 | #814 | 16 | — | |
| 1898 | #631 | 26 | — | |
| 1897 | #660 | 22 | — | |
| 1896 | #843 | 15 | — | |
| 1895 | #746 | 18 | — | |
| 1894 | #664 | 20 | — | |
| 1893 | #687 | 18 | — | |
| 1892 | #762 | 15 | — | |
| 1891 | #796 | 12 | — | |
| 1890 | #758 | 13 | — | |
| 1889 | #724 | 13 | — | |
| 1888 | #593 | 18 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Ebba! It came in at #593, and was given to 18 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1930–1932, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Ebba
- 2,264 spots since 2024 (#7,251 → #4,987)
- 3,966 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #4,987)
- 3,460 spots since 2015 (#8,447 → #4,987)
- Biggest jump: 183 spots in 1897 (#843 → #660)
- Biggest drop: 332 spots in 1904 (#760 → #1,092)
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 1888 at #593 (18 births)
- Births halved by 1907, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 1888–1903
- Highest: 1 in 9,923 girls born in 1888 were named Ebba (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,818 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 20.4% of all girls named Ebba (189) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 31 | #593 (1888) | #659 |
| 1890s | 175 | #631 (1898) | #736 |
| 1900s | 143 | #747 (1901) | #1,080 |
| 1910s | 189 | #1,113 (1911) | #1,548 |
| 1920s | 109 | #2,378 (1925) | #3,063 |
| 1930s | 23 | #3,109 (1933) | #4,024 |
| 1940s | 11 | #3,954 (1941) | #4,599 |
| 1950s | 18 | #4,833 (1951) | #5,139 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 26 | #10,921 (2005) | #14,293 |
| 2010s | 108 | #7,342 (2019) | #10,474 |
| 2020s | 92 | #4,987 (2025) | #7,752 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ebba in 1894
Top girls' names in 1894
More about 1894
girls
222,922 girls got a published name in 1894; 1 in 11,146 of them was named Ebba, which outranked 61.0% of the 1,702 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
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Tied with 17 names at #664; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 691Macy#794 → #1,485
- ↓ 659Fredericka#826 → #1,485
- ↓ 586Dee#767 → #1,353
- ↓ 584Katharyn#901 → #1,485
- ↓ 584Leva#901 → #1,485
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.