Ebby — unisex name
28 babies named Ebby in U.S. Social Security records since 1999, with the highest year being 2012. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
61% of everyone ever named Ebby was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Ebby in 2012 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ebby
The Social Security Administration has registered 28 babies named Ebby between 1999 and 2022, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ebby currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 6 babies received it in a single year. Ebby is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1933.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ebby performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 17 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Ebby shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ebby in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 28 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Ebby at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Ebby popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1999
- Peak year (2012)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 24 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
28 total births across 24 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2012 with 6 births in a single year.
Ebby popularity over time — boys
5 total births recorded since 1933 (Ebby as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Ebby accounts for 15% of total recorded use across both genders.
Ebby by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 17 births that decade — 61% of Ebby's all-time total
Ebby decade highlights
- Peak decade 17 births
- Runner-up 6 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Ebby's strongest decade
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 61% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1999–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.