Girl · Germanic
Ebba
Say it: EB-ah
Meaning
Uncertain. Probably a Germanic short form linked to eber 'boar' (as in Eberhard), or from the Anglo-Saxon saint's name Æbbe.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Used by the Swedish nobility from the 16th century and among the top Swedish girls' names in recent decades.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1890s
In the United States
- 859 babies given this name since 1888
- At its height in 1898, about 1 in 10,000 girls
- 16 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
| Old English | Æbbe |
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Famous bearers
- Ebba Brahe, Swedish noblewoman loved by Gustav II Adolf
- Saint Ebba of Coldingham, Anglo-Saxon abbess
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Where this comes from
- Royal and noble genealogies
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.