Ebon
Ebon was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 269 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ebon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ebon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,683, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1977, the peak
Ebon peaked in 1977, when 16 boys were given it, #2,691 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #12,683 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,687 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,738 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,000 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,292 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,004 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,814 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,218 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,163 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,320 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 6 | #10,334 | 3.0 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,437 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,374 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,075 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,693 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,239 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,054 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,995 | 4.7 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,725 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,428 | 2.9 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,648 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,660 | 3.7 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,124 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,852 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,473 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,884 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,264 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,691 | 9.7 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,551 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,945 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,302 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,277 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,869 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,749 | 4.5 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,582 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ebon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ebon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ebon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ebon, and how old are they?
An estimated 254 Americans named Ebon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 19 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 312 people named Ebon (46 women and girls, 266 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 258 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,475 babies since 1880, Ebon is the third most given (6.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 28 babies recorded by SSA was a Ebon (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ebon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ebon and names like it
- Compare Ebon and EbenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sEbon peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ebon since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Ebon.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Ebon alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with EMost given first.