Ebba
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Germanic: short form of various names formed with eber ‘boar’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛba˥˩/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ebba is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 326(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 3.9K
- FIFinland1 in 4.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- 1 in 326 (inferred from the name graph)
31,299 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Germanic: short form of various names formed with eber ‘boar’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Ebba, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ebba counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
31,299 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
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)
Ebba 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.
In Swedish, Ebba är en femininform till → Ebbe och ursprungligen en tysk smekform till namn på Eber- ’vildsvin’, t.ex. Eberhardine. Namnet har varit ett av de allra populäraste flicknamnen under flera decennier. I den rikssvenska almanackan 6 mars, efter Ebba Munck af Fulkila, som 1888 gifte sig med prins Oskar. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 13 oktober.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In ang, an ebb, receding of water
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sc, mare (female horse)
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)
- Ebba Braheb. 1596SESwedish nobleman (1596-1674)
- Ebba Sparreb. 1629SESwedish countess (1626-1662)
- Ebba Bernadotteb. 1858SESwedish noble (1858-1946)
- Maud Ebba Augusta Adlercreutzb. 1907SESwedish journalist
- Ebba Witt-Brattströmb. 1953SESwedish literary scholar and feminist (born 1953)
- Ebba Hultkvistb. 1983SESwedish actress
- Anna von Hausswolffb. 1986SEnot in their usual nameSwedish musician
- Tove Lob. 1987SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer
- Ebba Jungmarkb. 1987SESwedish high jumper
- Ebba Anderssonb. 1997SESwedish female cross-country skier
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Ebba mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanic: short form of various names formed with eber ‘boar’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Ebba?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛba˥˩/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- Is Ebba a male or female name?
- Ebba is a female 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 are other forms of the name Ebba?
- In the etymology graph, Ebbe is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ebba have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Ebba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ebba.
- Where is Ebba most common?
- Ebba is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 326 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ebba?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 31,299 people named Ebba, about 1 in 326 residents.
- How common is Ebba compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Ebba is the 118th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ebbaThe 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, “Ebba” — the 118th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.