Meaning not yet researched.
Ebony: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #132 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #132 in 1982; #5,452 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ebony in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,452 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #132.
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Ebony: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 girls in 2025. Peak: #132 in 1982 · most girls in one year: 2,279 (1982).
In 2025, 23 US girls were named Ebony, making it the 5,452nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 43 places from #5,495 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 23 girls named Ebony in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #132, reached in 1982. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,279. For comparison, it was #3,039 in 2015 and #4,895 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ebony in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 6 babies. In all, 39,453 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 18,464 babies named Ebony.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 354 US girls were named Ebony; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 69,881 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Eboni (6,527 babies since 1880), Ebonie (2,638 babies since 1880) and Ebonee (1,662 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Eboney, Ebon and Ebany are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Eboney (747), Ebon (269), Ebany (122), Ebonye (106), Ebbony (18), Ebonii (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ebony in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,452 | — | — |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,495 | — | — |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,235 | — | — |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,829 | — | — |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,270 | — | — |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,575 | — | — |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,946 | — | — |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,449 | — | — |
| 2017 | 47 | #3,355 | — | — |
| 2016 | 70 | #2,546 | — | — |
| 2015 | 56 | #3,039 | — | — |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,520 | — | — |
| 2013 | 105 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 2012 | 94 | #2,048 | — | — |
| 2011 | 98 | #2,002 | — | — |
| 2010 | 119 | #1,747 | — | — |
| 2009 | 171 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 2008 | 182 | #1,346 | 5 | #13,087 |
| 2007 | 208 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 2006 | 227 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 2005 | 257 | #961 | — | — |
| 2004 | 307 | #818 | 5 | #11,871 |
| 2003 | 333 | #749 | — | — |
| 2002 | 372 | #676 | — | — |
| 2001 | 380 | #662 | — | — |
| 2000 | 474 | #553 | 6 | #9,446 |
| 1999 | 530 | #489 | 5 | #10,383 |
| 1998 | 614 | #433 | 5 | #10,085 |
| 1997 | 722 | #375 | — | — |
| 1996 | 801 | #347 | 6 | #8,247 |
| 1995 | 907 | #306 | 7 | #7,229 |
| 1994 | 994 | #280 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,164 | #241 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,349 | #213 | 9 | #5,778 |
| 1991 | 1,526 | #195 | 8 | #6,116 |
| 1990 | 1,567 | #186 | 21 | #2,991 |
| 1989 | 1,577 | #176 | 33 | #2,116 |
| 1988 | 1,726 | #164 | 13 | #3,758 |
| 1987 | 1,748 | #157 | 13 | #3,590 |
| 1986 | 1,662 | #165 | 13 | #3,502 |
| 1985 | 1,787 | #160 | 17 | #2,863 |
| 1984 | 2,130 | #137 | 21 | #2,384 |
| 1983 | 2,219 | #135 | 19 | #2,513 |
| 1982 | 2,279 | #132 | 36 | #1,658 |
| 1981 | 1,554 | #178 | 15 | #2,937 |
| 1980 | 1,581 | #175 | 21 | #2,388 |
| 1979 | 1,443 | #184 | 20 | #2,405 |
| 1978 | 1,320 | #198 | 18 | #2,504 |
| 1977 | 1,157 | #213 | 23 | #2,085 |
| 1976 | 896 | #265 | 22 | #2,131 |
| 1975 | 616 | #352 | 29 | #1,720 |
| 1974 | 499 | #404 | 21 | #2,070 |
| 1973 | 299 | #552 | 15 | #2,536 |
| 1972 | 236 | #646 | 17 | #2,269 |
| 1971 | 167 | #828 | 12 | #2,862 |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,266 | — | — |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,361 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,067 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,997 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,895 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).