Ebben
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: to ebb
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈɛbən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ebben is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- NLNetherlands
- DEGermany
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)to ebb
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ebben is read
(measured from records)Ebben is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English79%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ebben in English.
- German6.2%
to ebb
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Eberhard/Eberwin; 166 Träger. Kurzform mit Ebb-/Epp-, aus Eber- verkürzt.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Patronymischer Familienname, Kurzform zu Rufname Eberhard/Eberwin.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
- Dutch5.4%
to ebb, to recede (especially of tides)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
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)Ebben 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 Hungarian, inessive singular of ez, in this
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, To ebb; to recede (of tides)
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)- Anton Ebbenb. 1930NLDutch equestrian (1930–2011)
- Bill Ebbenb. 1935USAmerican basketball player
- Debbe Ebbenb. 1988USMiss Alaska 2012
- Greg EbbenUSbasketball player
- Gary L. EbbenUSUnited States Air Force General
- Marion H. Ebbenbotanist
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 873 | #2,013 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 757 | #32,541 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 705 | #31,126 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 668 | #34,032 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 17 | #52,945 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 5 | #69,503 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #65,729 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #77,556 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #325,482 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Ebben mean, and where does it come from?
- to ebb Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ebben?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɛbən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ebben have the most bearers?
- Ebben is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Ebben?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ebbenThe 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, “Ebben”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.