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How popular is “Ebenezer” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ebenezer” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Ebenezer” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Ebenezer” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Ebenezer” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Ebenezer” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Ebenezer” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ebenezer” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1884 7 0.000028752 7 -100%
1912 6 0.000006072 6 -100%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 -100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 -100%
1938 9 0.000004068 9 -100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 -100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 -100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 -100%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 -100%
1989 14 0.000003642 14 -100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 -100%
1991 11 0.000002824 11 -100%
1992 11 0.000002864 11 -100%
1993 8 0.000002122 8 -100%
1994 10 0.00000269 10 -100%
1995 13 0.00000355 13 -100%
1996 13 0.000003564 13 -100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 -100%
1998 12 0.000003262 12 -100%
1999 13 0.000003519 13 -100%
2000 21 0.000005556 21 -100%
2001 18 0.000004808 18 -100%
2002 22 0.000005885 22 -100%
2003 21 0.000005523 21 -100%
2004 30 0.000007852 30 -100%
2005 26 0.000006762 26 -100%
2006 27 0.000006825 27 -100%
2007 35 0.000008755 35 -100%
2008 31 0.000007887 5 26 -68%
2009 28 0.00000733 28 -100%
2010 41 0.000011094 5 36 -76%
2011 42 0.000011482 42 -100%
2012 48 0.000013124 48 -100%
2013 42 0.000011521 42 -100%
2014 50 0.00001349 6 44 -76%
2015 49 0.00001324 49 -100%
2016 48 0.000013084 6 42 -75%
2017 55 0.000015379 55 -100%
2018 53 0.000015074 6 47 -77%
2019 40 0.000011524 40 -100%
2020 45 0.000013471 5 40 -78%
2021 46 0.000013578 46 -100%
2022 34 0.00001005 34 -100%
2023 53 0.000016006 53 -100%
2024 51 0.000015322 51 -100%

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