See the results of this poll: How would you pronounce Eben?
Respondents: 52 (This poll is closed)
- EE-ben (like Ethan) : 27 (52%)
- EH-ben (like Evan): 25 (48%)
I say EH-ben. 
I’m with @tfzolghadr - seeing that it’s short for [name_m]Ebenezer[/name_m] (eh-beh-NEE-zer), it just makes sense to say EH-ben to me.
Yes. This. Eh [name_m]Ben[/name_m].
“[name_m]Eben[/name_m]” is a [name_m]German[/name_m] word and pronounced é-ben, not like Eh-ben, nor Ee-ben. [name_m]Eben[/name_m] means “even” btw As in: “This floor is even.” Or “just”: "I just went to the store. But I agree with other berries that [name_m]Eben[/name_m] could be seen as a nn for [name_m]Ebenezer[/name_m]
I have friend called [name_m]Eben[/name_m] and we pronounce it Ee-[name_m]Ben[/name_m].
I thought the same thing as some of y’all about it being a short form of [name_m]Ebenezer[/name_m] and so favoring EH-ben, but then I realized a lot of shortened names take a different vowel sound: the short ‘i’ in [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] becomes a long ‘i’ in [name_f]Eliza[/name_f]; the short ‘a’ in [name_f]Katherine[/name_f] becomes a long ‘a’ in [name_f]Kate[/name_f] (and same with [name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m] to [name_m]Nathan[/name_m] and [name_m]Nate[/name_m]); the short ‘E’ in [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u] becomes a long ‘E’ in [name_f]Evie[/name_f]. So I don’t think that necessarily settles it. Part of me feels like EH-ben should be spelled Ebben. I still see the rationale for both!
I love this name! I had [name_m]Eben[/name_m] (and the feminine name [name_m]Eb[/name_m]ène) on my list, but my partner did not like it. You also have Ebenelle for a girl.
[name_m]Eben[/name_m] has different meanings. It is either a variant of [name_m]Eb[/name_m]ène ([name_f]Ebony[/name_f] in french), or a variant of [name_m]Ebenezer[/name_m]. It’s also a [name_m]German[/name_m] word, but not name.
I pronounce it É-ben, so more like Eh-ben and not Ee-ben.
I say “EE-ben,” and so does the family of the only little [name_m]Eben[/name_m] I know. Take it with a grain of salt though, because [name_m]Ebenezer[/name_m] is “EE-ben-ee-zer” in my neck of the woods. 
Generally, but not always! [name_u]Evan[/name_u] itself can be a shortened form of Evangelos or [name_m]Evander[/name_m], both of which have a long E. And [name_f]Eliza[/name_f] and [name_m]Nathan[/name_m]. And some of those conditions could apply to [name_m]Eben[/name_m] as well - as others pointed out, [name_m]Ebenezer[/name_m] itself has different pronunciations, including with a long E to start, and [name_m]Eben[/name_m] is an old names that does exist in other languages. Generally what’s “correct” about words/names is just the consensus about it. It seems like the people who actually know someone named [name_m]Eben[/name_m] are saying they pronounce it EE-ben, and that seems to be winning in the poll (though narrowly!), so I’m inclined to defer to that!
It’s one of my favorites, and I’ve always seen it pronounced EE-ben when it’s been used. [name_m]EB[/name_m]-en is fine, though: it sounds a bit like [name_u]Evan[/name_u] with a cold, but [name_u]Evan[/name_u] is a nice name 
I pronounce it like [name_u]Evan[/name_u] with a “b”
I’ve never heard EE-ben, I was surprised the results are so divided. I know two [name_m]Eben[/name_m]'s who both pronounce it EH-ben.
In English, I’d say EE-ben as I don’t think “Ebenezer” when I look at it (Ebenezer and Eben would have to be much more popular for that to happen); however, even if I would recognize it as a short form, my pronunciation would probably stay the same (as with EE-liza and Eh-lizabeth).
If the name seems to be chosen from a different culture, I’d be more inclined to say “Eh-ben”.
In German, I’d think “what?” as it’s a word meaning “even” (or “exactly” in some cases).
As to “which one is correct?”, I think with short names like these, it’s difficult to say as they can be derived from different sources and even if you go by the Hebrew pronunciation, that one is very different to the English Ebenezer, too.
I went ahead and did this, and found this, which gives the pronunciation as EE-ben. [name_m]Eben[/name_m] comes from [name_m]Ebenezer[/name_m], but it is a name in its own right, and like [name_f]Eliza[/name_f] can evolve its own pronunciation. You seem really convinced that the “right” way to say it is the way you prefer, but names are arbitrary sounds, there is no “right” way to say them except for consensus. To me it seems like there is no strong consensus and both are used, but that it’s tilting towards EE-ben. Which is not any “less correct” than “ee-LIE-za” is less correct than “ee-[name_f]LIZ[/name_f]-a” just because of the root name’s standard pronunciation.
It kind of makes sense to me that [name_m]Eben[/name_m], like [name_f]Eliza[/name_f], would evolve a different pronunciation from its root name because of the way that ‘b’ and ‘z’ in the middle of a word tend to be doubled to make their preceding vowels short: [name_f]Lizzie[/name_f] vs. [name_f]Liza[/name_f], drizzle vs. rhizome, baby/able vs. babble/abbey, ebbed vs. zebra, tuba vs. tubby etc., so it just seems slightly more intuitive to pronounce the vowel preceding a single ‘b’ as long. It wouldn’t happen with [name_u]Evan[/name_u] because double v’s don’t really exist in English and so it fits in with short-e words like “ever.”
I went ahead and did this, and found this, which gives the pronunciation as EE-ben. [name_m]Eben[/name_m] comes from [name_m]Ebenezer[/name_m], but it is a name in its own right, and like [name_f]Eliza[/name_f] can evolve its own pronunciation. You seem really convinced that the “right” way to say it is the way you prefer, but names are arbitrary sounds, there is no “right” way to say them except for consensus. To me it seems like there is no strong consensus and both are used, but that it’s tilting towards EE-ben. Which is not any “less correct” than “ee-LIE-za” is less correct than “ee-[name_f]LIZ[/name_f]-a” just because of the root name’s standard pronunciation.
It kind of makes sense to me that [name_m]Eben[/name_m], like [name_f]Eliza[/name_f], would evolve a different pronunciation from its root name because of the way that ‘b’ and ‘z’ in the middle of a word tend to be doubled to make their preceding vowels short: [name_f]Lizzie[/name_f] vs. [name_f]Liza[/name_f], drizzle vs. rhizome, baby/able vs. babble/abbey, ebbed vs. zebra, tuba vs. tubby etc., so it just seems slightly more intuitive to pronounce the vowel preceding a single ‘b’ as long. It wouldn’t happen with [name_u]Evan[/name_u] because double v’s don’t really exist in English and so it fits in with short-e words like “ever.”
I would pronounce is with a long E like you do with [name_m]Ethan[/name_m]. If it was spelled [name_u]Eban[/name_u], I would pronounce it with a short E, as in [name_u]Evan[/name_u].
[name_m]Eben[/name_m] - Ee-ben
[name_u]Eban[/name_u] - Eh-ben