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Across the world, Ebenezer (Ebenezer , ألبرت , אבנעזר ) is a common primarily masculine, but scarcely feminine first name. The first name Ebenezer is habitual in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, where it is a common masculine name, Nigeria, where it is quite a common predominantly masculine, but very seldom feminine name, and Cameroon, where it is quite a common masculine name. Also, Ebenezer is the last name as well as the forename.
Ebenezer is also a prevalent name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Spawn , the comic book superhero, Mortal Kombat 11; Ebenezer Scrooge , the focal character of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella "A Christmas Carol"; Albert Wesker , the Resident Evil character, Resident Evil 5; Chief Seamus O'Hara , the character in Disney and Uncle Ebenezer , the fictional character from Stevenson's Kidnapped, and in many other works.