Eboney
Eboney was last recorded in 2007, when 10 babies were given it; 747 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eboney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Eboney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,064, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 1980, the peak
Eboney peaked in 1980, when 46 girls were given it, #2,199 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 10 | #11,064 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,729 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,142 | 4.3 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,686 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,585 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,340 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,735 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,387 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,870 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,700 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 11 | #7,738 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,719 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,917 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,552 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,515 | 16.8 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,742 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,236 | 17.9 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,391 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,173 | 17.4 |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,501 | 23.6 |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,476 | 23.3 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,669 | 20.9 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,527 | 22.0 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,680 | 19.8 |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,969 | 17.7 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,799 | 19.2 |
| 1980 | 46 | #2,199 | 27.7 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,742 | 19.9 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,027 | 17.0 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,404 | 14.3 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,846 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,670 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,963 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Eboney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eboney has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eboney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eboney, and how old are they?
An estimated 724 Americans named Eboney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 33 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 568 people named Eboney (565 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 730 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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.
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 Eboney?
Eboney is a less common spelling of Ebony: SSA has recorded 747 Eboney and 39,453 Ebony since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 52,437 babies since 1880, Eboney is the sixth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 23 babies recorded by SSA was a Eboney (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 Eboney
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 Eboney and names like it
- Compare Eboney and EbonyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sEboney peaked in 1980.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eboney since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Eboney.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Eboney alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.