girls:
33 births since 2008
#5683 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1884
#3489 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1884
#6594 (15th percentile)
The name Ebenezer is the #6,594 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,146 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 14.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,489 (23.9% percentile) for all time with 1,113 births since 1884. For girls, it ranks #5,683 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 33 births since 2008.
Ebenezer first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for boys and 2008 for girls). Birth data for Ebenezer is available in 54 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023 (54 years for boys and 6 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ebenezer has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ebenezer reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 5.5% percentile (ranked #864) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 57 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ebenezer ranks #863 for boys (5.3% percentile) with 29 births per million, which is 50.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ebenezer reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #956) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ebenezer".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Ebenezer. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.0% confident that Ebenezer is pronounced as eh-buh-NEE-zer, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is eh-bih-NEE-zer, at 17.1% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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