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Eyob

Boys' name

Form of Job

Eyob has been given to 251 babies in the U.S. since 1994. 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 2011, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Eyob, 2024

1 in 371,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eyob: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Job

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eyob means

Eyob is a form of Job.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Eyob is used in Amharic and Tigrinya.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Eyob → Job. The family’s meaning is “to be an enemy + enemy”, recorded in English with the source elements אָיַב and אוֹיֵב.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Job.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 251 boys were recorded with the name Eyob between 1994 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2011; its best national rank was #4,709 in 2011.

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 Eyob?

Eyob 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 371,000
9 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 191,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eyob 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 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 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eyob. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eyobs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eyob was born before 2013 — so the typical Eyob is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
251
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 49.4% of all recorded uses (124).

Is Eyob 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 2011 (20)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,709
2011

Spellings of Eyob

Eyob is not the most common spelling — Bob is, with 62.1% against Eyob's 0.17%.

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 Eyob is used

Across 1910–2025, Eyob was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Eyob has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eyob around the world

Where Eyob 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
    2008–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1994–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Eyob 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
—
Best rank ever
#4,709
2011
Peak year
2011
20 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
251
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Eyob

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

EyoabEyoelEyonEyoasEyosias

Sibling names for Eyob

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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