Ebbe (first name)

Ebbe is a mostly male given name .

Origin and meaning

The name is mostly used in Danish , Swedish , Norwegian (rarely in German ) and is the diminutive of Eberhard and other names beginning with the German element ebur - it means wild boar . In Scandinavian , the name is the diminutive of Esben .

The female variant is Ebba .

Well-known namesake

Male

• Carl-Ebbe Andersen (1929–2009), Danish rower
• Ebbe Carlsson (1947–1992), Swedish journalist
• Ebbe Grimsland (1915–2015), Swedish composer
• Ebbe Hamerik (1898–1951), Danish composer and conductor
• Ebbe Hertzberg (1847–1912), Norwegian legal historian and economist
• Ebbe Lundgaard (1944–2009), Danish politician
• Ebbe Munck (1905–1974), Danish journalist
• Ebbe Parsner (1922–2013), Danish rower
• Ebbe Kjeld Rasmussen (1901–1959), Danish physicist
• Ebbe Rode (1910–1998), Danish actor
• Ebbe Sand (* 1972), Danish soccer player
• Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen (1950–2001), Danish entomologist
• Ebbe Schwartz (1901–1964), Danish football official

Female

• Ebbe Weiss-Weingart (1923–2019), German goldsmith and jewelry designer

See also

• Ebb (disambiguation)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mike Campbell: Meaning, origin and history of the name Ebbe. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .