Ebba
Ebba is given to both girls and boys: 26 girls and 6 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,009 among girls’ names and #11,020 among boys’, #7,609 among all names counting both); 953 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ebba by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ebba mean?
Wiktionary, Danish section
Ebba is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “boar” (Eber-).
From a German diminutive of female given names beginning with the Germanic element Eber- “boar”. Also interpreted as a feminine form of Ebbe.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Danish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ebba?
#5,009 among girls’ names, 2025
Ebba rose from #8,589 in 2015 to #5,009 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.3 to 16.2 per million.
32 babies in 2025, the peak
Ebba peaked in 2025, when 32 babies were given it (26 girls, #5,009 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 15 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,009 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,335 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,017 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,599 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,132 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,107 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,458 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,877 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,415 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,035 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,589 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,129 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,285 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,610 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,458 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,633 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,081 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,996 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,161 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,044 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,593 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,362 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,000 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,458 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,084 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,417 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,370 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,187 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,734 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,766 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,249 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,964 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,750 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,407 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,019 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,503 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,520 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,536 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,530 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,813 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,824 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 24 | #1,566 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,497 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,450 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,453 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,799 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,318 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,130 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,819 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,394 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,722 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,419 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,244 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 14 | #1,024 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,115 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 20 | #767 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 20 | #778 | 0.08 |
| 1901 | 19 | #751 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 23 | #764 | 0.08 |
| 1899 | 16 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1898 | 26 | #637 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 22 | #664 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 15 | #849 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 18 | #750 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 20 | #668 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 18 | #693 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 15 | #768 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 12 | #808 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 13 | #765 | 0.07 |
| 1889 | 13 | #731 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 18 | #595 | 0.10 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ebba a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 953 Americans recorded as Ebba, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ebba: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ebba, and how old are they?
An estimated 279 Americans named Ebba and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (29% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 433 people named Ebba (376 women and girls, 57 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 191 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,700 babies since 1880, Ebba is the most given (56% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 46 babies (70%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ebba
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ebba and names like it
- Compare Ebba and EbbieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEbba peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ebba since 1910.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Ebba: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ebba.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ebba alive today were born 2013-2025.
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