Ebonee
Ebonee was last recorded in 2012, when 8 babies were given it; 1,662 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,620 Americans named Ebonee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 32 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ebonee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ebonee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,545, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
97 babies in 1991, the peak
Ebonee peaked in 1991, when 97 girls were given it, #1,572 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 8 | #12,545 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,523 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,736 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,305 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,328 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,997 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,234 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,173 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,219 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,470 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 12 | #8,339 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,094 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,649 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,660 | 28.9 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,738 | 25.9 |
| 1996 | 64 | #2,130 | 36.5 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,252 | 33.6 |
| 1994 | 65 | #2,102 | 36.4 |
| 1993 | 66 | #2,067 | 36.5 |
| 1992 | 81 | #1,782 | 43.9 |
| 1991 | 97 | #1,572 | 51.7 |
| 1990 | 87 | #1,687 | 45.8 |
| 1989 | 81 | #1,686 | 43.9 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,648 | 44.4 |
| 1987 | 77 | #1,610 | 44.3 |
| 1986 | 91 | #1,408 | 53.0 |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,867 | 34.9 |
| 1984 | 81 | #1,436 | 48.1 |
| 1983 | 86 | #1,382 | 51.5 |
| 1982 | 81 | #1,477 | 47.8 |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,034 | 30.6 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,547 | 22.3 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,268 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,129 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,793 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,434 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,413 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,402 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,688 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,622 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,788 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ebonee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ebonee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ebonee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ebonee, and how old are they?
1,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,662 Americans ever recorded as Ebonee. The median Ebonee alive today is 37 years old; half are between 32 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 1,339 people named Ebonee (1,335 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,628 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 167 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,170 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 276 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
How common is the spelling Ebonee?
Ebonee is a less common spelling of Ebony: SSA has recorded 1,662 Ebonee and 39,453 Ebony since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 52,315 babies since 1880, Ebonee is the fourth most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 23 babies recorded by SSA was a Ebonee (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 Ebonee
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 Ebonee and names like it
- Compare Ebonee and EbonyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sEbonee peaked in 1991.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ebonee since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Ebonee.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ebonee alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.