Ebe
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Initialism of extraterrestrial biological entity
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/iːb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ebe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 67K
- GAGabon≈1 in 72K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Initialism of extraterrestrial biological entity.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ebe is read(measured from records)
Ebe is one spelling over 5 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.
- English48%
Initialism of extraterrestrial biological entity.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Turkish14%
midwife
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish7.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ebe in Spanish.
- German6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ebe in German.
- French5.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ebe in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Ebe 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | Ebe | 5 |
| PH Philippines | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Ebe | 12 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 67K | 213 | — | — |
| DE Germany | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 236K | listed | — | — |
| US United States | 183 | 1 in 1.8M | 183 | Ebe | 27 |
| GA Gabon | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 72K | 13 | — | — |
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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative); the dfa-band-6 register. 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)
Ebe 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.
Wonderful feeling.
as a nameThe African book of names
Giovinezza
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Juvenil
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Hungarian, third-person singular single-possession possessive of eb
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)
- Atsuo Ebeb. 1877JPJapanese educator
- Burkhart Ebeb. 1881DEGerman sculptor (1881-1949)
- Kōji Ebeb. 1950JPJapanese internist
- Mayuko EbeJPJapanese actress
- Mituru EbeJPJapanese physiologist
- Hiroshi Eberesearcher
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)
Attested in 40 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 213 | #1,996 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 183 | #98,982 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 175 | #108,023 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 166 | #100,663 |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 13 | #82 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 6 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Ebe mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of extraterrestrial biological entity. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ebe?
- A machine transcription gives /iːb/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ebe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.7 thousand people named Ebe in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ebe.
- How common is the name Ebe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 183 people named Ebe in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ebe?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ebeThe 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, “Ebe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.