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How popular is the name Eben?

Births per year, rank history and how many Ebens are alive today.

Eben (male) is a rare boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 1538th in 2025 and given to 17 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2013, when 67 babies were given the name, the 544th most popular that year. It has declined since 2013; the 2025 figure is roughly 25% of its peak. Eben is one spelling of a name also recorded as Eban; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Eben you are most likely to meet is around 14 years old. Half of all Ebens born in England and Wales are between 8 and 19, and there are at least 990 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Eben - on average, only one in every 307 such rooms contains a Eben.

How many babies are named Eben each year?

Includes all spellings: Eben, Eban. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Eben spelling rank?

Where does the Eban spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.