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EBENEZER m Biblical, English
Pronounced: e-be-NEE-zur
Means "stone of help" in Hebrew. This was the name of a monument erected by Samuel in the Old Testament. Ebenezer Scrooge was a miserly character in Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'.

And Scrooge?

And Jacob Marley?
JACOB m English, Dutch, Scandinavian
Pronounced: JAY-kub
From the Latin Jacobus, which was from the Greek Iakobos, which was from the Hebrew name Ya'aqob which meant "holder of the heel" or "supplanter". The biblical Jacob (later called Israel) was born holding his twin brother Esau's heel. He was the son of Isaac and Rebecca and the father of the twelve founders of the twelve tribes of Israel. A famous bearer of this name was Jacob Grimm, the German linguist and writer who was, with his brother Wilhelm, the author of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'.

MARLEY m,f English
Pronounced: MAR-lee
From a surname which was taken from a place name meaning "pleasant wood" in Old English. A famous bearer of the surname was the Jamaican musician Bob Marley.

The question remains... What does Scrooge means?