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Eberhard

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Eberhard has been given to 6 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 6 recorded.

Babies named Eberhard, 1918

1 in 362,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eberhard: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eberhard means

Eberhard is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Eberhard is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Everett.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Eberhard between 1918 and 1918. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1918; its best national rank was #3,846 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 Eberhard?

Eberhard 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 362,000
6 of 2,171,052 births
Among boys only
1 in 169,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1918
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
250,811 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eberhard 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 250,811 children born in 1918 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eberhard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eberhards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eberhard was born before 1918 — so the typical Eberhard 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
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1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Eberhard 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 (6)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,846
1918

Spellings of Eberhard

Eberhard is not the most common spelling — Bernard is, with 98.0% against Eberhard'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.

Eberhard around the world

Where Eberhard 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
    1902–1943
    #834
    in 1943
  • South Australia
    1962–1962
    #548
    in 1962

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Eberhard 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
#3,846
1918
Peak year
1918
6 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
1918
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Eberhard

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

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Sibling names for Eberhard

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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