Ebenezer

given name · Akan · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ebenezer is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria. In Ghana it is the 100th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Akan and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Hebrew; place name meaning "stone of help" in the Bible.

rarermore common
  • GHGhana1 in 2.2K◐
  • NGNigeria1 in 4K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 89K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈3.3K ●

across 11 countries

Sources
225 ●

48K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 19K ◐

Iceland

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Eben-Ezer in CD Congo - Kinshasa.

Meaning & origin●

Hebrew; place name meaning "stone of help" in the Bible

Sources 1

  • Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ebenezer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria#41917,99725K rec.——Ebenezer112
GH Ghana#1007,8145K rec.——Ebenezer105
GB United Kingdom—2,3331.5K rec.—3Ebenezer104
US United States—2,15411K rec.1 in 154K2.2KEbenezer225
PH Philippines—1,3761.3K rec.——Ebenezer32
BR Brazil—750△3 rec.1 in 282K750Ebenezer5
IN India—730823 rec.—27Ebenezer86
ZA South Africa—632679 rec.——Ebenezer32
CA Canada—427289 rec.—6Ebenezer64
AU Australia—411552 rec.—1Ebenezer53
DE Germany—227235 rec.——Ebenezer54
SE Sweden—103△18 rec.1 in 99K103—10

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Languages●

  • Akan163K68%
  • English44K18%
  • Portuguese12K5%
  • Swahili4.8K2%
  • Spanish3.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Akan162,65868%
English43,87418%
Portuguese11,9535%
Swahili4,8212%
Spanish3,2101%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ebenezer is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name17K records spelled Ebenezer8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Mexico, Philippines

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Ebenézer, Eben-Ezer, Ebenezér

  • Swahili given name8.0K records spelled Ebenezer5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Ghana, United States, Kenya

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Eben-Ezer, Ebénézer

  • Hindi given name3.0K records spelled Ebenezer3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ebénezer

  • French given name1.6K records spelled Ebenezer5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Côte d’Ivoire, United States, Nigeria

    Also written Eben-Ezer, Ebénézer, Ébénézer, Ebenézer

  • Indonesian given name1.4K records spelled Ebenezer4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Nigeria, Malaysia, Ghana

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Èbenezer, Ebenézer

  • a separate given name1.3K records spelled Ebenezer5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Nigeria, Ghana

    Also written Ebénézer, Ebenézer, Ebénezer, Ébénézer

  • Amharic given name1.0K records spelled Ebenezer3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Ghana, United States, Ethiopia

    Also written አቤንኤዘር, Ebenézer

  • Arabic given name964 records spelled Ebenezer3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ghana, United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Ébénézer

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ebenezer is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Biblical term, originally a place name -_— EDAN

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • Piedra que ayuda

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In English, The stone memorial in Israel erected by Samuel.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Dutch, a neighbourhood of Sint Maarten

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020406019001950200055 · 2017

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Ebenezer in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1884–2025
Yearrecords
18847
19126
19186
19205
19245
19255
19265
19277
19389
19467
19575
19686
19695
19787
19805
19826
19837
19847
19869
198914
19909
199111
199211
19938
199410
199513
199613
19978
199812
199913
200021
200118
200222
200321
200430
200526
200627
200735
200826
200928
201036
201142
201248
201342
201444
201549
201642
201755
201847
201940
202040
202146
202234
202353
202451
202552

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 56 years between 1884–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

17001800190020002100Ebenezer Hazard, b. 1744Ebenezer Emmons, b. 1799Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, b. 1810Ebenezer R. Hoar, b. 1816Ebenezer Cobb Morley, b. 1831Ebenezer Howard, b. 1850Ebenezer Joshua, b. 1908Ebenezer Assifuah, b. 1993Ebenezer Ofori, b. 1995Brian Brobbey, b. 2002

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 64 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Ebenezer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.2K#6,960
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022750—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—726#10,102
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—719#11,393
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020298#70,715
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010161#109,758
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—158#5,663
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000103#147,095
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—103#8,353
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202090#6,960
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—89#8,056
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—88#17,494

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 257 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ebenezer?
We estimate roughly 3.3 thousand people bear Ebenezer (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Ebenezer have the most bearers?
Ebenezer is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled ebenezer.
How common is Ebenezer compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Ebenezer is the 419th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
Is Ebenezer a male or female name?
Ebenezer is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ebenezer mean?
Recorded meaning: Hebrew; place name meaning "stone of help" in the Bible
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ebenezer” — the 419th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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