Eboni
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306 · Last seen for boys in 1980 at #6,250
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1982 · 282 births
- Debut · girls
- 15 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,522since 1970
Eboni over time
Rank among girls' names. Eboni has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | — | |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | — | |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | — | |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | — | |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | — | |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | — | |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 | — | |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | — | |
| 2014 | #6,207 | 20 | — | |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 | — | |
| 2012 | #5,557 | 24 | — | |
| 2011 | #5,207 | 26 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,961 | 38 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,870 | 40 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,887 | 61 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,787 | 65 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,631 | 68 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,225 | 82 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,652 | 62 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,062 | 86 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,887 | 94 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,627 | 112 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,431 | 128 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,187 | 163 | — | |
| 1998 | #991 | 203 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,096 | 171 | — | |
| 1996 | #962 | 200 | — | |
| 1995 | #812 | 244 | — | |
| 1994 | #898 | 214 | — | |
| 1993 | #829 | 238 | — | |
| 1992 | #823 | 243 | — | |
| 1991 | #808 | 253 | — | |
| 1990 | #796 | 252 | — | |
| 1989 | #813 | 234 | — | |
| 1988 | #734 | 255 | — | |
| 1987 | #729 | 248 | — | |
| 1986 | #714 | 251 | — | |
| 1985 | #723 | 238 | — | |
| 1984 | #696 | 239 | — | |
| 1983 | #713 | 237 | — | |
| 1982 | #637 | 282 | — | |
| 1981 | #781 | 209 | — | |
| 1980 | #795 | 206 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #791 | 200 | — | |
| 1978 | #835 | 178 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,027 | 130 | — | |
| 1976 | #932 | 138 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,139 | 102 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,345 | 78 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,805 | 47 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,920 | 43 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,062 | 22 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,872 | 15 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Eboni! It came in at #3,872, and was given to 15 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2022–2025, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Eboni is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#230 · 1 in 922
- Connecticut#396 · 1 in 2,838
- Michigan#410 · 1 in 3,197
- Maryland#490 · 1 in 3,651
- Virginia#600 · 1 in 5,568
Best ever in a state: #100 in District of Columbia, 1989.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| District of Columbia | #230 | 6 | 1 in 922 |
| Connecticut | #396 | 5 | 1 in 2,838 |
| Michigan | #410 | 18 | 1 in 3,197 |
| Maryland | #490 | 5 | 1 in 3,651 |
| Virginia | #600 | 5 | 1 in 5,568 |
| Tennessee | #621 | 5 | 1 in 5,573 |
| Pennsylvania | #637 | 10 | 1 in 6,600 |
| North Carolina | #721 | 5 | 1 in 6,474 |
| New York | #732 | 16 | 1 in 6,145 |
| Ohio | #748 | 8 | 1 in 8,619 |
| Florida | #759 | 7 | 1 in 6,289 |
| Georgia | #766 | 5 | 1 in 6,450 |
| Louisiana | #771 | 5 | 1 in 5,503 |
| Texas | #843 | 14 | 1 in 7,385 |
| Illinois | #894 | 8 | 1 in 8,863 |
| California | #897 | 19 | 1 in 8,070 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Eboni
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2022
- Biggest jump: 207 spots in 1976 (#1,139 → #932)
- Biggest drop: 196 spots in 1999 (#991 → #1,187)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 1982 at #637 (282 births)
- Births halved by 2000, 18 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 1978–1996
- Highest: 1 in 6,005 girls born in 1982 were named Eboni (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 328,026 girls born in 2022 (0.00%)
- 36.8% of all girls named Eboni (2,399) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 953 | #791 (1979) | #1,673 |
| 1980s | 2,399 | #637 (1982) | #734 |
| 1990s | 2,181 | #796 (1990) | #920 |
| 2000s | 798 | #1,431 (2000) | #2,406 |
| 2010s | 173 | #3,961 (2010) | #8,210 |
| 2020s | 18 | #12,142 (2020) | #13,637 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Eboni in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 8,606 of them was named Eboni, which outranked 92.7% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.