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Ebbe

Boys' name

God, through Ásbjǫrn

Ebbe has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1918. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Ebbe, 1918

1 in 434,000

Ebbe over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ebbe: meaning, origin, and history

God, through Ásbjǫrn

Danish

What Ebbe means

Ebbe belongs to the name family reached through Ebbe → Ásbjǫrn. Its meaning is “god”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ebbe is used in Danish and Swedish. Its origins include Danish.

Ebbe comes through Old Norse Ásbjǫrn.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Esbjørn, Arnbjørn and Ásbjǫrn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Ebbe between 1918 and 1918. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1918; its best national rank was #4,343 in 1918.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ebbe?

Ebbe had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1918, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1918
1 in 434,000
5 of 2,171,052 births
Among boys only
1 in 203,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1918
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
300,973 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ebbe sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1918 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 300,973 children born in 1918 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ebbe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ebbes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ebbe was born before 1918 — so the typical Ebbe is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Ebbe rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (5)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,343
1918

Spellings of Ebbe

Ebbe is not the most common spelling — Kobe is, with 36.6% against Ebbe's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Ebbe around the world

Where Ebbe ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2018–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • Norway
    2022–2025
    #246
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Norway. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Ebbe by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,343
1918
Peak year
1918
5 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
1918
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ebbe

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ebbe

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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