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Ebru

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Ebru has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 1983. 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 1995, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Ebru, 1999

1 in 738,000

Ebru over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ebru: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ebru means

Ebru is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ebru is used in Turkish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Ebru is pronounced /ebˈɾu/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 22 girls were recorded with the name Ebru between 1983 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1995; its best national rank was #10,737 in 1983.

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 Ebru?

Ebru had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999
1 in 738,000
5 of 3,692,373 births
Among girls only
1 in 355,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1999
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
511,873 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ebru 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 1999 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 511,873 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ebru. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ebrus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ebru was born before 1995 — so the typical Ebru is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
77.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
22
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 77.3% of all recorded uses (17).

Is Ebru 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1995 (7)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,737
1983

Spellings of Ebru

Ebru is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 95.0% against Ebru'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.

Ebru around the world

Where Ebru 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
    1996–2016
    #4,763
    in 2016
  • France
    1974–2021
    #6,421
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1994–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ebru 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
#10,737
1983
Peak year
1995
7 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Sibling names for Ebru

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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