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Ebenezer
Say it: eb-uh-NEE-zer
Meaning
Hebrew 'stone of help', the memorial stone set up by Samuel (1 Samuel 7:12).
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Used by Puritans and Nonconformists, then overshadowed by Dickens's miser.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 1,012 babies given this name since 1884
- At its height in 1884, about 1 in 16,300 boys
- 45 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
Used by
The family of the name
| Hebrew | Even ha-Ezer |
|---|
Famous bearers
- Ebenezer Scrooge, character in Dickens's A Christmas Carol
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Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Puritan church and town records of England and New England
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
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.