Ebony
Ebony is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 23 births. Its best rank was 132nd, in 1982.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 230.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19822,279 births
- Best rank
- #132in 1982
- Since 1950
- 38,975people given the name
The story in the numbers
38,975 girls have been named Ebony in the United States since 1950, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1982, with 2,279 births — 0.13% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 23 births in 2024, against 2,279 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1986, and the 1980s alone account for 47%. It has spent 35 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1982, its biggest year
Ebony was the 132nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1982 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Sarah and Melissa. See all of 1982.
Names that rose and fell with Ebony
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Casiepeak 1983
- Eboniepeak 1982
- Tarahpeak 1985
- Sharikapeak 1987
- Jaclynpeak 1988
- Taneshapeak 1983
- Tiffanypeak 1988
- Shanekapeak 1983
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.