Eboni
Eboni was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 6,527 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,340 Americans named Eboni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 30 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eboni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Eboni?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,965, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
282 babies in 1982, the peak
Eboni peaked in 1982, when 282 girls were given it, #637 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #15,965 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,942 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,501 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,817 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,694 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,557 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,292 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,388 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,262 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,810 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 24 | #5,593 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,248 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,978 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,891 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,896 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,798 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,643 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 82 | #2,229 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,655 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,066 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 94 | #1,886 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 112 | #1,631 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 128 | #1,435 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 163 | #1,185 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 203 | #991 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 171 | #1,098 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 200 | #961 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 244 | #811 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 214 | #897 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 238 | #828 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 243 | #822 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 253 | #806 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 252 | #795 | 0.13 |
| 1989 | 234 | #811 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 255 | #734 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 248 | #730 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 251 | #715 | 0.15 |
| 1985 | 238 | #723 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 239 | #696 | 0.14 |
| 1983 | 237 | #713 | 0.14 |
| 1982 | 282 | #637 | 0.17 |
| 1981 | 209 | #782 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 206 | #795 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 200 | #791 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 178 | #835 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 130 | #1,028 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 138 | #934 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 102 | #1,140 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 78 | #1,346 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,808 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 43 | #1,930 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,084 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,918 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Eboni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eboni has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 53 years of records.
Girls and boys named Eboni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eboni, and how old are they?
6,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 6,527 Americans ever recorded as Eboni. The median Eboni alive today is 37 years old; half are between 30 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 5,109 people named Eboni (5,092 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,373 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 1,100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,730 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,410 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 102 |
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).
Where are babies named Eboni born?
The states with the most babies named Eboni are Texas, Illinois and California, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 589 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 452 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 421 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 378 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| New York | 369 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 365 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 342 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 258 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Virginia | 223 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 193 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Eboni is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eboni is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1970 it was given 3.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Eboni with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Eboni?
Eboni is a less common spelling of Ebony: SSA has recorded 6,527 Eboni and 39,453 Ebony since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 52,437 babies since 1880, Eboni is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 none of their 23 babies recorded by SSA was a Eboni (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 Eboni
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 Eboni and names like it
- Compare Eboni and EbonyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sEboni peaked in 1982.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eboni since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Eboni.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Eboni alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.