Eben

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Eben: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Eben: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #378 in 2008, and it stood at #785 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#378highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1458
1997	#1052
1998	#1263
1999	#1027
2000	#1241
2001	#1595
2002	#1128
2003	#1248
2004	#1038
2005	#1047
2006	#1401
2007	#952
2008	#699
2009	#868
2010	#878
2011	#718
2012	#748
2013	#544
2014	#889
2015	#903
2016	#870
2017	#906
2018	#958
2019	#1189
2020	#1085
2021	#985
2022	#1314
2023	#1018
2024	#1758

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1758 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1458 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2008–2018
Highest recorded position: #378 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2008 (recorded 2008–2018).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1758 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Eben appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 738 births with the name.

Eben across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Eben's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1458 (1996)	#544 (2013)	#1758 (2024)	29 of 29	738 (1996–2024)	67 (2013)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#378 (2008)	#378 (2008)	#416 (2018)	2 of 11	6 (2008–2018)	3 (2008)

Eben by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Eben in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	45	4 of 10	11
2000s	199	10 of 10	20
2010sbusiest	376	10 of 10	38
2020s	118	5 of 10	24

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 38 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2013 and 2014, when recorded births fell by 34, from 67 to 33.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Eben appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #378 in Northern Ireland in 2008.

Eben's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1758	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1018	29	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1314	20	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#985	30	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1085	25	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1189	22	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#958	30	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#906	34	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#870	36	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#903	33	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#889	33	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#544	67	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#748	44	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#718	44	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#878	33	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#868	32	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#699	42	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#952	26	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1401	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1047	20	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1038	19	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1248	13	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1128	14	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1595	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1241	11	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1027	14	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1263	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1052	13	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1458	8	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#416	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#378	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #378, first reached in 2008.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 67 births, registered in England and Wales in 2013.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Eban · #1620, 23y
Ebba · #67, 43y
Ebenezer · #1125, 29y
Eboni · #920, 24y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Kenzi · #377, 26y
Nyah · #377, 26y
Shana · #377, 29y
Faris · #376, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Chantell · #378, 18y
John-Joe · #378, 13y
Presley · #378, 27y
Tye · #378, 28y

Eben was ranked #378 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2008. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Eben and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Eben without appearing here.

Eben moved ahead of

Shannon Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1595 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1128 and #3225.
Graeme Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1595 and #1595 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1128 and #2636.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1401 and #1224 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #952 and #2435.
Tayla Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1458 and #1458 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #1052 and #2022.

Moved ahead of Eben

Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1018 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1758 and #1132.
Kasper Compare
In 2013 they stood at #544 and #560 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #889 and #527.
Harper Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1018 and #1207 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1758 and #1402.
Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #985 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1314 and #967.

Moved the opposite way to Eben

Cooper Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Eben went from #1052 to #1758 while Cooper went from #2022 to #139.
Arlo Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Eben went from #1027 to #1758 while Arlo went from #2943 to #15.
Harper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Eben went from #1027 to #1758 while Harper went from #2425 to #1402.
Kasper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Eben went from #1027 to #1758 while Kasper went from #2425 to #529.

Moved the same way as Eben

Espen Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Eben went from #1128 to #1758 and Espen from #3225 to #5119.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #378 in Northern Ireland in 2008. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Eben

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Eben across 2 official records

Eben by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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