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I'd say it has been totally associated with Scrooge, and I'd even go farther and say Dickens picked it for Scrooge's first name at least partly because it was already not a name people were using. He often used strange or silly names for characters.
Eben isn't too bad, but it's likely to just sound like Evan with a fat lip.

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