Ebony
#5,410 for girls in 2025, 23 births · Last seen for boys in 2008 at #12,553
Given to girls 98.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1982 · 2,279 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 38,998since 1950
Ebony over time
Rank among girls' names. Ebony has never cracked the top 100 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,410 | 23 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 23 | — | |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 | — | |
| 2022 | #4,793 | 28 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,245 | 33 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,548 | 29 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,923 | 37 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,438 | 45 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,346 | 47 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,539 | 70 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,024 | 56 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,517 | 71 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,900 | 105 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,047 | 94 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,000 | 98 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,747 | 119 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,383 | 171 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,345 | 182 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #1,205 | 208 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,102 | 227 | — | |
| 2005 | #958 | 257 | — | |
| 2004 | #816 | 307 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #749 | 333 | — | |
| 2002 | #675 | 372 | — | |
| 2001 | #661 | 380 | — | |
| 2000 | #552 | 474 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #489 | 530 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #433 | 614 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #375 | 722 | — | |
| 1996 | #347 | 801 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #305 | 907 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #280 | 994 | — | |
| 1993 | #241 | 1,164 | — | |
| 1992 | #213 | 1,349 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #195 | 1,526 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #186 | 1,567 | #2,952 | 21 |
| 1989 | #176 | 1,577 | #2,106 | 33 |
| 1988 | #164 | 1,726 | #3,705 | 13 |
| 1987 | #157 | 1,748 | #3,521 | 13 |
| 1986 | #165 | 1,662 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #160 | 1,787 | #2,828 | 17 |
| 1984 | #137 | 2,130 | #2,364 | 21 |
| 1983 | #135 | 2,219 | #2,493 | 19 |
| 1982 | #132 | 2,279 | #1,654 | 36 |
| 1981 | #178 | 1,554 | #2,898 | 15 |
| 1980 | #175 | 1,581 | #2,367 | 21 |
| 1979 | #184 | 1,443 | #2,379 | 20 |
| 1978 | #198 | 1,320 | #2,473 | 18 |
| 1977 | #213 | 1,157 | #2,063 | 23 |
| 1976 | #265 | 896 | #2,113 | 22 |
| 1975 | #351 | 616 | #1,704 | 29 |
| 1974 | #404 | 499 | #2,050 | 21 |
| 1973 | #551 | 299 | #2,513 | 15 |
| 1972 | #645 | 236 | #2,243 | 17 |
| 1971 | #828 | 167 | #2,813 | 12 |
| 1970 | #1,681 | 55 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,254 | 32 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,315 | 16 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ebony! It came in at #4,738, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1951–1965, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Ebony is popular in 1950
No state had 5 or more girls named Ebony in 1950, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Ebony
- 33 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #5,410)
- 862 spots since 2020 (#4,548 → #5,410)
- 2,386 spots since 2015 (#3,024 → #5,410)
- Biggest jump: 853 spots in 1971 (#1,681 → #828)
- Biggest drop: 144 spots in 2006 (#958 → #1,102)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1982 at #132 (2,279 births)
- Births halved by 1994, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1971–2005
- Highest: 1 in 743 girls born in 1982 were named Ebony (0.13%)
- Latest: 1 in 69,881 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 46.8% of all girls named Ebony (18,263) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 6 | #4,738 (1950) | #4,738 |
| 1960s | 59 | #2,254 (1969) | #4,546 |
| 1970s | 6,688 | #184 (1979) | #532 |
| 1980s | 18,263 | #132 (1982) | #158 |
| 1990s | 10,174 | #186 (1990) | #306 |
| 2000s | 2,911 | #552 (2000) | #945 |
| 2010s | 742 | #1,747 (2010) | #2,648 |
| 2020s | 155 | #4,245 (2021) | #5,101 |
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.
Ebony in 1950
Top girls' names in 1950
More about 1950
girls
1,713,054 girls got a published name in 1950; 1 in 285,509 of them was named Ebony, which outranked 22.4% of the 6,109 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,315Zelphia7
- #4,315Zenda7
- #4,315Zerita7
- #4,738Ebony6
- #4,738Adaline6
- #4,738Adra6
- #4,738Adrain6
- #5,301Abagail5
- #5,301Adonica5
- #5,301Adora5
Tied with 562 names at #4,738; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.