Eboni — girls' name

What the Data Says About Eboni

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,521 babies named Eboni between 1970 and 2022, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Eboni currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 282 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Eboni performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 2,399 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Eboni shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 589 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Eboni in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Eboni in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,521 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.