Ebba is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Ebba in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Ebba in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Ebba by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Ebba ranks at #8,341. That means there are 8,340 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ebba.
Is the name Ebba a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1888 – at that time, it landed at position 562 with 18 newborn girls receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Ebba is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Ebba, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ebba was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Welcome, Ebba, to 2022. Even if your highest rank is long ago, 9 parents welcomed a new Ebba to earth that year. That makes Ebba ranking on position 9,013 among newborn girls in the SmartGenius statistics. If you know someone named Ebba who was born in 2022, you know someone truly special.
The first name Ebba is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 21 Americans in total bear this name. And these 21 women are located in only four states: Connecticut, Illinois, Minnesota and New York (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Ebba and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Ebba in relation to it’s female population is Connecticut. And yet even there, only one in 332,830 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Ebba.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Ebba is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.
If your name is Ebba and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ebba, you can simply say:
Elephant
Butterfly
Butterfly
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ebba
Ebba
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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B
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A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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B
B
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ebba sounds like this:
