Ebenezer
Ebenezer was given to 52 boys in 2025, #2,544 among boys’ names; 1,249 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Ebenezer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ebenezer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ebenezer mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ebenezer is “a male given name from Hebrew taken up by Puritans in the 17th century.” Its etymology gives the sense “stone of help” (הָעֵזֶר).
From Hebrew אֶבֶן הָעֵזֶר (éven ha`ézer, “stone of help”).
/ɛbəˈnizɚ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ebenezer?
#2,544 among boys’ names, 2025
Ebenezer fell from #2,535 in 2015 to #2,544 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 25.6 to 30.4 per million.
55 babies in 2017, the peak
Ebenezer peaked in 2017, when 55 boys were given it, #2,355 among boys’ names. The 52 births of 2025 are 95% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #2,544 | 30.4 |
| 2024 | 51 | #2,607 | 29.6 |
| 2023 | 53 | #2,517 | 31.0 |
| 2022 | 34 | #3,426 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 46 | #2,740 | 26.3 |
| 2020 | 40 | #2,940 | 23.2 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,006 | 22.3 |
| 2018 | 47 | #2,640 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,355 | 29.7 |
| 2016 | 42 | #2,848 | 22.1 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #2,535 | 25.6 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,719 | 22.9 |
| 2013 | 42 | #2,778 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 48 | #2,564 | 25.3 |
| 2011 | 42 | #2,813 | 22.1 |
| 2010 | 36 | #3,137 | 18.8 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,748 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,963 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,203 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,707 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 26 | #3,640 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,238 | 15.1 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,012 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,818 | 11.3 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,338 | 9.3 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,808 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,113 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,232 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,791 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,678 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,589 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,566 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,386 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,971 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,854 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,499 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,863 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,572 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,123 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,072 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,851 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,536 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,682 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,581 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,824 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,140 | 2.3 |
| 1946 | 7 | #2,975 | 4.3 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,527 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,549 | 6.2 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,385 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,382 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,521 | 4.4 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,479 | 4.7 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,845 | 5.9 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,350 | 14.0 |
| 1884 | 7 | #792 | 61.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ebenezer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,249 Americans recorded as Ebenezer, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 52 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ebenezer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ebenezer, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,249 Americans ever recorded as Ebenezer. The median Ebenezer alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 2,244 people named Ebenezer (90 women and girls, 2,154 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 913 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 113 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 417 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 613 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Ebenezer
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.
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