Ebenezer
Below 5 births
2025 SSA
About Ebenezer
Ebenezer is the name of a biblical place --the stone set up by Samuel to mark his victory over the Philistines--rather than a person. It was adopted by the British Puritans as a first name and then exported to America, where it had some early popularity, even entering the Top 1000 in the 1880s.
After appearing in Walter Scott's novel Waverly and Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped, it made its most lasting impression as Dickens's miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, pretty much annihilating the name, but since Scrooge did reform at the end of A Christmas Carol, maybe there's some slight hope for the old name yet. If you have a sense of humor, you might consider it one of the darker Christmas baby names.
The good news: the appealing short form Eben--so if you find Ebenezer too loaded and quirky for your taste, you might skip straight to the nickname.
Ebenezer is also given to girls.
Pronounced eb-uh-NEE-zer.
As of October 2026, Ebenezer ranked #15762 in US births in 2020 SSA, peaked at #14289 in 2018.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,721 | 44 | 22.9 |
| 2015 | #2,535 | 49 | 25.6 |
| 2016 | #2,848 | 42 | 22.1 |
| 2017 | #2,355 | 55 | 29.7 |
| 2018 | #2,640 | 47 | 25.9 |
| 2019 | #3,007 | 40 | 22.3 |
| 2020 | #2,941 | 40 | 23.2 |
| 2021 | #2,737 | 46 | 26.3 |
| 2022 | #3,427 | 34 | 19.5 |
| 2023 | #2,513 | 53 | 31 |
| 2024 | #2,598 | 51 | 29.6 |
| 2025 | #2,544 | 52 | 30.4 |
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Ebenezer on lists
Famous Ebenezers
- Ebenezer R. HoarBoy
30th U.S. Attorney General (1869,70)
- Ebenezer HowardBoy
British urban theorist/city planner
- Ebenezer HuntingtonBoy
American politician
- Ebenezer EkubanBoy
American football player
- Ebenezer J. HillBoy
American politician
Ebenezer in pop culture
- EbenBoy
Ezer, biblical location (its meaning ["stone of help"] made clear in I Samuel 7:12: "Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.")
- Ebenezer ScroogeBoy
main character in "A Christmas Carol"
- Ebenezer LucasBoy
characher in "Sims" series