Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Ebrima isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ebrima through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 265
- 265 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,548 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −12%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,548 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 576 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ebrima’s family of names
Ebrima has a conventional equivalent in the Chinese form 亞伯拉罕.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ebrima
- Ebrima DarboeGambian association football playerborn 2001
- Ebrima SohnaGambian footballerborn 1988
- Ebrima Ebou SillahGambian footballer (born 1980)
- Ebrahima CamaraGambian sprinterborn 1996
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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