Ebba

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Ebba: Recorded since 1945, with a gap of 24 years, its highest recorded position is #67, reached in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
67times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#67highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Ebba's record

Absent from every published list for 24 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
2000	#2167
2002	#3409
2003	#3099
2004	#4598
2005	#3970
2006	#3116
2007	#3667
2008	#3397
2009	#3031
2010	#3156
2011	#1903
2012	#3681
2013	#3160
2014	#3514
2015	#2945
2016	#2966
2017	#4063
2018	#3985
2019	#2170
2020	#2615
2021	#3192
2022	#3148
2023	#2689
2024	#3015

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 42 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #86 among girls in Norway, #3015 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #297 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #67 among girls in Norway, in 2025 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #67 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Ebba appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 42 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 1,018 births with the name.

Ebba 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.

Ebba'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
Norway · Girls	#297 (1945)	#67 (2025)	#67 (2025)	42 of 81	1,018 (1945–2025)	95 (2025)
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#1903 (2011)	#3015 (2024)	25 of 29	169 (1996–2024)	14 (2011)

Ebba by decade in Norway · Girls

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 Ebba in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	31	4 of 10	8
1950s	26	5 of 10	5
1960s	9	2 of 10	5
1990s	46	6 of 10	8
2000s	131	9 of 10	15
2010s	382	10 of 10	38
2020sbusiest	393	6 of 10	66

Across Norway · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 66 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2024 and 2025, when recorded births rose by 27, from 68 to 95.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Ebba 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 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #67 in Norway in 2025.

Ebba'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	female	#3015	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2689	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3148	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2170	12	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2966	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2945	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1903	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3156	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#67	95	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#86	68	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#84	69	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#92	58	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#102	50	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#101	53	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#88	67	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#105	56	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#127	47	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#180	32	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#163	37	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#178	33	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#214	26	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#185	31	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#276	19	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#181	34	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#263	20	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#312	15	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#271	18	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#235	22	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#288	16	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#443	7	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#306	13	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#371	10	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#373	10	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#341	11	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#496	6	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#369	10	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#565	5	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#409	9	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#568	5	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#544	4	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#429	5	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#379	6	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#394	5	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#380	5	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#361	5	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#362	5	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#311	7	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#285	9	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#326	7	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#297	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 43 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #67, first reached in 2025.

It held a top-100 place in 5 years, 4 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 95 births, registered in Norway in 2025.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 24 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 51 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.

Eavan · #313, 32y
Eban · #1620, 23y
Eben · #378, 29y
Ebenezer · #1125, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Erna · #74, 43y
Mariusz · #76, 48y
Ronja · #58, 42y
Sylvi · #94, 45y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Dagfinn · #67, 48y
Martha · #67, 81y
Kristen · #66, 78y
Malene · #66, 50y

Ebba was ranked #67 in Norway · Girls in 2025. 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.

Ebba 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 Ebba without appearing here.

Ebba moved ahead of

Donna Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3985 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2170 and #5591.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3985 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2170 and #5591.
Kristine Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3681 and #2969 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #3160 and #5742.
Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3667 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #3156 and #5707.

Moved ahead of Ebba

Blake Compare
In 2011 they stood at #1903 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3681 and #1893.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #1785.
Liv Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2167 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #3409 and #2105.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #1743.

Moved the opposite way to Ebba

Anita Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ebba went from #297 to #67 while Anita went from #162 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ebba went from #297 to #67 while Anne went from #1 to #159.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ebba went from #297 to #67 while Åse went from #25 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ebba went from #297 to #67 while Aud went from #13 to #427.

Moved the same way as Ebba

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ebba went from #297 to #67 and Ada from #229 to #18.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ebba went from #297 to #67 and Alma from #293 to #8.
Elise Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ebba went from #297 to #67 and Elise from #223 to #63.
Ella Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ebba went from #297 to #67 and Ella from #137 to #4.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #67 in Norway in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ebba

Ebba at a glance

What stands out in Ebba's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ebba across 2 official records

Ebba by decade in Norway · Girls

Ebba appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Ebba

Ebba and the names beside it

Ebba moved ahead of

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Ebba at a glance

What stands out in Ebba's record

Ebba across 2 official records

Ebba by decade in Norway · Girls

Ebba appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Ebba

Ebba and the names beside it

Ebba moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Ebba

Moved the opposite way to Ebba

Moved the same way as Ebba