Meaning not yet researched.
Eben: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #534 in 1888.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #534 in 1888; #3,874 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Eben in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,874 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1888, at #534.
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Eben: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 boys in 2025. Peak: #534 in 1888 · most boys in one year: 100 (2012).
In 2025, 28 US boys were named Eben, making it the 3,874th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,115 places from #2,759 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 47 boys named Eben in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #534, reached in 1888. The most boys given the name in a single year was 100, in 2012. For comparison, it was #1,917 in 2015 and #2,243 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eben in 133 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 9 babies. In all, 3,614 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 711 babies named Eben.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 449 US boys were named Eben; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 65. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,003 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ben (85,816 babies since 1880), Ebenezer (1,249 babies since 1880) and Ebone (1,182 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Iban, Ebin and Ibin are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Iban (524), Ebin (337), Ibin (21), Ebyan (10), Ebbin (5), Ibon (5), Ebben (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Eben in the open dataset we use.
Eben is listed as a nickname for Ebenezer.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 28 | #3,874 |
| 2024 | — | — | 47 | #2,759 |
| 2023 | — | — | 29 | #3,820 |
| 2022 | — | — | 37 | #3,231 |
| 2021 | — | — | 49 | #2,633 |
| 2020 | — | — | 53 | #2,443 |
| 2019 | — | — | 47 | #2,704 |
| 2018 | — | — | 65 | #2,152 |
| 2017 | — | — | 37 | #3,140 |
| 2016 | — | — | 57 | #2,309 |
| 2015 | — | — | 76 | #1,917 |
| 2014 | — | — | 67 | #2,084 |
| 2013 | — | — | 80 | #1,799 |
| 2012 | — | — | 100 | #1,582 |
| 2011 | — | — | 93 | #1,638 |
| 2010 | — | — | 89 | #1,720 |
| 2009 | — | — | 94 | #1,671 |
| 2008 | — | — | 85 | #1,765 |
| 2007 | — | — | 77 | #1,866 |
| 2006 | — | — | 66 | #2,020 |
| 2005 | — | — | 62 | #2,013 |
| 2004 | — | — | 60 | #1,999 |
| 2003 | — | — | 65 | #1,822 |
| 2002 | — | — | 43 | #2,389 |
| 2001 | — | — | 42 | #2,354 |
| 2000 | — | — | 38 | #2,491 |
| 1999 | — | — | 33 | #2,633 |
| 1998 | — | — | 22 | #3,418 |
| 1997 | — | — | 32 | #2,509 |
| 1996 | — | — | 39 | #2,156 |
| 1995 | — | — | 21 | #3,223 |
| 1994 | — | — | 20 | #3,361 |
| 1993 | — | — | 28 | #2,601 |
| 1992 | — | — | 28 | #2,556 |
| 1991 | — | — | 30 | #2,357 |
| 1990 | — | — | 29 | #2,391 |
| 1989 | — | — | 26 | #2,501 |
| 1988 | — | — | 34 | #1,920 |
| 1987 | — | — | 27 | #2,183 |
| 1986 | — | — | 33 | #1,850 |
| 1985 | — | — | 28 | #2,032 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,462 | 31 | #1,807 |
| 1983 | — | — | 49 | #1,333 |
| 1982 | — | — | 43 | #1,469 |
| 1981 | — | — | 37 | #1,610 |
| 1980 | — | — | 42 | #1,479 |
| 1979 | — | — | 35 | #1,642 |
| 1978 | — | — | 27 | #1,885 |
| 1977 | — | — | 33 | #1,650 |
| 1976 | — | — | 44 | #1,337 |
| 1975 | — | — | 41 | #1,362 |
| 1974 | — | — | 31 | #1,597 |
| 1973 | — | — | 35 | #1,444 |
| 1972 | — | — | 32 | #1,515 |
| 1971 | — | — | 37 | #1,403 |
| 1970 | — | — | 26 | #1,718 |
| 1969 | — | — | 19 | #1,926 |
| 1968 | — | — | 20 | #1,799 |
| 1967 | — | — | 25 | #1,548 |
| 1966 | — | — | 24 | #1,593 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #3,054 |
| 1964 | — | — | 20 | #1,809 |
| 1963 | — | — | 14 | #2,231 |
| 1962 | — | — | 17 | #1,990 |
| 1961 | — | — | 16 | #2,087 |
| 1960 | — | — | 22 | #1,738 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,701 |
| 1958 | — | — | 14 | #2,204 |
| 1957 | — | — | 16 | #2,041 |
| 1956 | — | — | 24 | #1,617 |
| 1955 | — | — | 12 | #2,337 |
| 1954 | — | — | 17 | #1,912 |
| 1953 | — | — | 19 | #1,782 |
| 1952 | — | — | 15 | #2,028 |
| 1951 | — | — | 10 | #2,541 |
| 1950 | — | — | 12 | #2,243 |
| 1949 | — | — | 11 | #2,373 |
| 1948 | — | — | 12 | #2,246 |
| 1947 | — | — | 19 | #1,749 |
| 1946 | — | — | 10 | #2,445 |
| 1945 | — | — | 13 | #1,952 |
| 1944 | — | — | 11 | #2,228 |
| 1943 | — | — | 16 | #1,856 |
| 1942 | — | — | 9 | #2,574 |
| 1941 | — | — | 15 | #1,839 |
| 1940 | — | — | 8 | #2,719 |
| 1939 | — | — | 9 | #2,506 |
| 1938 | — | — | 14 | #1,921 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,672 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #2,961 |
| 1935 | — | — | 14 | #1,959 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,828 |
| 1933 | — | — | 14 | #1,929 |
| 1932 | — | — | 18 | #1,736 |
| 1931 | — | — | 8 | #2,918 |
| 1930 | — | — | 13 | #2,212 |
| 1929 | — | — | 10 | #2,643 |
| 1928 | — | — | 8 | #3,161 |
| 1927 | — | — | 18 | #1,894 |
| 1926 | — | — | 24 | #1,528 |
| 1925 | — | — | 13 | #2,339 |
| 1924 | — | — | 23 | #1,638 |
| 1923 | — | — | 21 | #1,710 |
| 1922 | — | — | 18 | #1,911 |
| 1921 | — | — | 25 | #1,519 |
| 1920 | — | — | 20 | #1,774 |
| 1919 | — | — | 21 | #1,645 |
| 1918 | — | — | 23 | #1,556 |
| 1917 | — | — | 25 | #1,406 |
| 1916 | — | — | 31 | #1,183 |
| 1915 | — | — | 27 | #1,274 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,320 |
| 1913 | — | — | 17 | #1,272 |
| 1912 | — | — | 10 | #1,652 |
| 1910 | — | — | 10 | #1,063 |
| 1905 | — | — | 7 | #1,022 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,260 |
| 1900 | — | — | 6 | #1,206 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,170 |
| 1896 | — | — | 6 | #1,015 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #904 |
| 1894 | — | — | 6 | #986 |
| 1892 | — | — | 6 | #991 |
| 1890 | — | — | 7 | #831 |
| 1889 | — | — | 7 | #820 |
| 1888 | — | — | 14 | #534 |
| 1887 | — | — | 6 | #846 |
| 1886 | — | — | 9 | #657 |
| 1885 | — | — | 6 | #862 |
| 1884 | — | — | 10 | #627 |
| 1883 | — | — | 7 | #744 |
| 1882 | — | — | 8 | #718 |
| 1880 | — | — | 9 | #647 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).