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

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Peak · boys
1884 · 7 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,216
since 1884

Ebenezer over time

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Rank among boys' names. Ebenezer has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201884peak #764, 1884boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#2,53952
2024#2,59551
2023#2,51053
2022#3,41234
2021#2,73246
2020#15,0885#2,92540
2019#2,99340
2018#13,7936#2,63547
2017#2,34555
2016#14,3316#2,83842
2015#2,52849
2014#14,5586#2,70544
2013#2,76342
2012#2,55148
2011#2,79842
2010#16,9925#3,12836
2009#3,72128
2008#17,5045#3,92126
2007#3,18835
2006#3,68627
2005#3,61526
2004#3,21730
2003#3,97621
2002#3,79422
2001#4,30218
2000#3,76421
1999#5,03513
1998#5,15912
1997#6,6188
1996#4,61313
1995#4,50813
1994#5,45210
1993#6,2288
1992#4,87211
1991#4,76011
1990#5,3829
1989#3,80914
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1986#4,4579
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1984#4,9737
1983#4,9077
1982#5,6196
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1980#6,2505
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1978#4,5547
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1969#4,4045
1968#3,6736
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1957#3,9935
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1946#2,9197
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1938#2,4799
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1927#3,4517
1926#4,2015
1925#4,1975
1924#4,3475
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1920#4,2865
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1918#3,7286
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1912#2,2696
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1884#7647
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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.

See more about Ebenezer
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
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s7#764 (1884)#764
1890s0
1900s0
1910s12#2,269 (1912)#2,999
1920s27#3,451 (1927)#4,096
1930s9#2,479 (1938)#2,479
1940s7#2,919 (1946)#2,919
1950s5#3,993 (1957)#3,993
1960s11#3,673 (1968)#4,039
1970s7#4,554 (1978)#4,554
1980s48#3,809 (1989)#5,003
1990s108#4,508 (1995)#5,263
2000s254#3,188 (2007)#3,718
2010s445#2,345 (2017)#2,728
2020s276#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.

Ebenezer in 1884

boys
#764
7 births · 1 in 16,349 boys

Top boys' names in 1884

  1. #1John9,388
  2. #2William8,897
  3. #3James5,693
  4. #4George4,961
  5. #5Charles4,802
  6. #6Frank3,218
  7. #7Joseph2,707
  8. #8Thomas2,572
  9. #9Henry2,474
  10. #10Robert2,468
  11. #764Ebenezer7
More about 1884

boys

114,441 boys got a published name in 1884; 1 in 16,349 of them was named Ebenezer, which outranked 32.1% of the 1,125 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 41.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ebenezer
  1. #701Woodson8
  2. #701Woody8
  3. #701Wright8
  4. #764Ebenezer7
  5. #764Adelard7
  6. #764Albion7
  7. #764Alcide7
  8. #848Adolf6
  9. #848Alden6
  10. #848Algie6

Tied with 83 names at #764; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1883
Risers
  1. 404Pierce#892#488
  2. 388Harlan#892#504
  3. 372Buck#892#520
  4. 345Noel#892#547
  5. 323Cleve#527#204
Fallers
  1. 444Ernie#527#971
  2. 415Chin#556#971
  3. 388Newt#460#848
  4. 369Cal#479#848
  5. 351Omar#497#848

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1884