Ebe

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Ebe has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1917, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Ebe, 1917

1 in 401,000

Ebe over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ebe: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ebe means

Ebe is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ebe is used in Estonian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Ebe between 1917 and 1917. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1917; its best national rank was #4,777 in 1917.

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.

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How common is Ebe?

Ebe had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1917, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1917: 1 in 401,000; 5 of 2,006,698 births
Among girls only: 1 in 216,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1917: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 278,189 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ebe 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 1917 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 278,189 children born in 1917 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ebe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ebes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ebe was born before 1917 — so the typical Ebe is around 108 today.

Median birth year: 1917; About 108 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 Ebe 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1917 (5)
Years since peak: 108; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,777; 1917

Ebe around the world

Where Ebe 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.

France
1926–1926
#1,155
in 1926

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ebe 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: —
Best rank ever: #4,777; 1917
Peak year: 1917; 5 that year
First recorded: 1917
Last recorded: 1917
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Ebe

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

Eben Ebere Rebe Eberly Ebelina Ebecca Beebe Ebelia Febe Ebelyn Debe Hebe Ebenezer Ebelin Bebe Phebe Phoebe

Sibling names for Ebe

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

For a sister

Albina Nelle Orpha Antonette Harriette Winnifred Maurine Johnie

For a brother

Regis Meyer Rosario Lyman Winfield Dorsey Granville Isadore

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