Ebenezer
Ebenezer is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 51 births. Its best rank was 792nd, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 510.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201755 births
- Best rank
- #792in 1884
- Since 1884
- 1,197people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,164 boys have been named Ebenezer in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 55 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 38%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 33 girls have also been given it, 2.8% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ebenezer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | |
| 1910s | 12 | |
| 1920s | 27 | |
| 1930s | 9 | |
| 1940s | 7 | |
| 1950s | 5 | |
| 1960s | 11 | |
| 1970s | 7 | |
| 1980s | 48 | |
| 1990s | 108 | |
| 2000s | 254 | |
| 2010s | 445 | |
| 2020s | 224 |
In 2017, its biggest year
Ebenezer was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Ebenezer
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Josiahpeak 2017
- Nolanpeak 2015
- Fisherpeak 2016
- Piersonpeak 2020
- Rafepeak 2024
- Tituspeak 2015
- Levipeak 2022
- Farispeak 2017
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.