Ebony

Where Ebony comes from

From ebony. First used by African Americans in the 1970s.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ebony
  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1950
    First appearance
    #4,738 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1982
    Ebony Bones born
    British singer
  3. 1982
    Peak, #132
    2,279 babies named Ebony — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1994
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #280.
  5. 1997
    Ebony Reigns born
    Ghanaian dancehall artist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English.
Namesakes
  • Ebony Bones · British singer, born 1982
  • Ebony Reigns · Ghanaian dancehall artist, 1997–2018
  • Ebony Ayes · American pornographic actress, born 1962
  • Ebony Hoffman · American basketball player, born 1982
  • Ebony Obsidian · American actress, born 1994

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.