Ebb
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The receding movement of the tide
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɛb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ebb is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The receding movement of the tide.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ebb is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, beli
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Swedish, ebb, low tide
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Karl Ebbb. 1896FIFinnish alpine skier and athletics competitor (1896–1988)
- Zoetica Ebbb. 1901USAmerican artist
- Fred Ebbb. 1928USAmerican musical theatre composer (1928-2004)
- Milou Ebbb. 1934FRFrench Polynesian politician
- Kimberley Ebbb. 1987Australian rules footballer
- Ken EbbAUAustralian rugby league footballer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 189 | #96,368 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 180 | #94,227 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 157 | #117,309 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #35,044 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #27,490 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ebb mean, and where does it come from?
- The receding movement of the tide. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ebb?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛb/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ebb have the most bearers?
- Ebb is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Ebb?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ebbThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Ebb”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.