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Eber

Boys’ name Recorded 1880-2025

Eber was given to 15 boys in 2025, #5,927 among boys’ names; 1,328 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

Babies named Eber each year, first recorded in 1880
Eber, 1880-2025; highest in 2007.1020304050188019001920194019601980200020252007 peak: 41
Eber, 1880-2025; highest in 2007.1020304050188019001920194019601980200020252007 peak: 41
Eber, 1880-2025; highest in 2007.102030405018801905193019551980200520252007 peak: 41
Eber, 1880-2025; highest in 2007.102030405018801930198020252007 peak: 41

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Names of the 2000sNames in CaliforniaTop names of 2007

Births of Eber by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Eber mean?

Wiktionary, English section

Eber is “Surname and given name”

Borrowed from Hebrew עֵבֶר (ʿéver).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Eber (English), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Eber?

#5,927 among boys’ names, 2025

Eber fell from #4,760 in 2015 to #5,927 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 10.4 to 8.8 per million.

41 babies in 2007, the peak

Eber peaked in 2007, when 41 boys were given it, #2,876 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.

Eber by year
YearBirthsRankPer million boys
202515#5,9278.8
202421#4,74012.2
202322#4,63212.9
202223#4,46313.2
202112#6,8086.9
202018#5,08310.4
201914#6,1767.8
201820#4,78611.0
201716#5,5958.6
201618#5,1809.5
Every recorded year (92)
YearBirthsRankPer million boys
201520#4,76010.4
201419#4,9269.9
201327#3,77614.3
201221#4,57711.1
201123#4,25912.1
201029#3,64915.1
200921#4,62810.6
200831#3,50415.2
200741#2,87619.8
200635#3,10117.0
200534#3,03117.0
200426#3,55613.1
200328#3,29914.2
200232#2,89416.5
200133#2,81717.0
200021#3,80910.7
199921#3,61410.9
199822#3,41511.5
199722#3,27911.7
199624#3,04612.7
199515#4,1087.9
199426#2,79013.5
199316#3,8718.2
199214#4,1647.0
199115#3,8577.4
199018#3,3488.8
198911#4,5955.5
198811#4,2455.7
19878#5,0924.3
19869#4,5734.9
19839#4,2415.0
19827#5,1813.9
19806#5,7273.4
19778#4,2844.9
19725#5,1863.1
19586#3,6482.8
195710#2,6954.6
19536#3,5303.0
19506#3,4183.4
19486#3,4083.4
19479#2,7164.9
19465#3,6613.1
194410#2,3517.3
19435#3,6843.5
19416#3,2394.9
19408#2,7206.9
19397#2,9076.3
19386#3,2685.4
19356#3,3605.8
19347#3,0596.8
19339#2,5929.1
19327#3,1606.7
193111#2,36510.6
19308#3,0987.3
19298#3,0577.4
192814#2,18912.6
192713#2,32411.5
192616#2,00614.4
192515#2,11513.4
192415#2,15413.2
19237#3,5676.4
192215#2,16713.8
192116#2,08614.5
192015#2,16014.1
191916#1,99516.3
191818#1,84417.8
191721#1,60422.7
191615#1,97816.9
191512#2,20914.1
19148#2,49912.2
19066#1,15345.1
18975#1,10744.3
18967#91858.5
18929#76373.7
18899#68881.4
18886#95549.6
18875#97449.3
18865#1,00545.1
18856#86255.7
18829#66479.2
18815#90449.6
18807#76663.4

Download Eber’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.

Is Eber a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Eber has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 92 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).

Girls and boys named Eber: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Eber, and how old are they?

An estimated 915 Americans named Eber and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (69% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 13 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.

The 2020 Census counted 1,805 people named Eber (32 women and girls, 1,773 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 838 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 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).

Where are babies named Eber born?

States with the most births: girls and boys together; rank among boys’ names in the state in 2025
StateSince 1910Rank, boysvs. national
California156not ranked1.2×
Texas136not ranked1.3×

Where Eber is more common than its national share predicts

Relative to its national share, Eber is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.

Texas1.28×
California1.18×

Bars start at 1× (as often as the national share predicts).

States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Eber with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.

More about Eber and names like it

  1. The most given names of the 2000sEber peaked in 2007.
  2. California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eber since 1910.
  3. The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Eber.
  4. The names of Generation ZMost people named Eber alive today were born 1997-2012.
  5. Names starting with EMost given first.

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