Ebba
Ebba reached its high-water mark in 1898 at number 631, and has been recorded 953 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,987th. About 280 Ebbas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 7.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ebba boys named Ebba
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 953
- Estimated living today
- 280
- Median age today
- 7
- Peak year
- 1898
- Best rank
- 631st
- Rank in 2025
- 4,987th
- First recorded
- 1888
- Girls / boys
- 925 / 28
How old the living Ebbas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 953 babies given the name since 1888, about 280 are alive — 29 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Ebbas
- Ebba Andersson (born 1997)Swedish female cross-country skier
- Ebba Busch (born 1987)Swedish politician
- Ebba Jungmark (born 1987)Swedish high jumper
- Ebba Brahe (1596–1674)Swedish nobleman
- Ebba Witt-Brattström (born 1953)Swedish literary scholar and feminist
- Ebba Bernadotte (1858–1946)Swedish noble
- Ebba Sparre (1626–1662)Swedish countess
- Ebba Haslund (1917–2009)Norwegian writer and politician
People named Ebba with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ebba is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1898
The most popular girls’ names the year Ebba peaked:
Ebba elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden girls | Ebba | 15,859 | 11th |
| Norway girls | Ebba | 1,018 | 67th |
| England and Wales girls | Ebba | 184 | 1,892nd |
| Switzerland girls | Ebba | 34 | 1,168th |
| France girls | Ebba | 5 | 5,602nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ebba: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Ebba | 27 | 0.002% | 1,004th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Ebba | 7 | 0.002% | 578th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Ebba by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 8 | 427th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Ebba among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Ebba | 1,005 | 1,348 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Ebba against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.