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Ebbie

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Diminutive of Ebenezer or Eben

Ebbie has been given to 663 babies in the U.S. since 1889. 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 1915, with 17 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 52% girls, 48% boys all-time.

Babies named Ebbie, 2024

1 in 334,000

Ebbie over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Ebbie over time

In 2024, Ebbie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Ebbie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Ebenezer or Eben

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ebbie means

Ebbie is a diminutive of Ebenezer or Eben.

Origin, language, and formation

Ebbie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ebenezer and Eben.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 346 girls were recorded with the name Ebbie between 1889 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,202 in 1892.

In the United States, 317 boys were recorded with the name Ebbie between 1881 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1920; its best national rank was #774 in 1882.

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 Ebbie?

Ebbie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 334,000
10 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 162,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
231,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ebbie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 231,706 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ebbie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ebbies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ebbie was born before 1923 — so the typical Ebbie is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
21.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1910s — 21.4% of all recorded uses (74).

Is Ebbie 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 1915 (17)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,202
1892

Spellings of Ebbie

Ebbie is not the most common spelling — Elsie is, with 24.0% against Ebbie's 0.04%.

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.

Where Ebbie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Ebbie was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ebbie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Ebbie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Ebbie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 468,388 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in —
  2. 2South Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ebbie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ebbie around the world

Where Ebbie 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
    1997–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Ebbie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,202
1892
Peak year
1915
17 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
346
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#774
1882
Peak year
1920
14 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
1969
All-time count
317
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ebbie

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

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Sibling names for Ebbie

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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