Ebonie
Ebonie was last recorded in 2013, when 7 babies were given it; 2,638 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,560 Americans named Ebonie 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.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ebonie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ebonie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,568, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
146 babies in 1982, the peak
Ebonie peaked in 1982, when 146 girls were given it, #1,010 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #13,568 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,486 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,387 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,161 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,504 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,392 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,127 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,075 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,416 | 16.9 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,470 | 12.0 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 30 | #4,204 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,730 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,095 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,750 | 28.2 |
| 1998 | 49 | #2,737 | 27.7 |
| 1997 | 67 | #2,102 | 38.5 |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,348 | 31.9 |
| 1995 | 67 | #2,029 | 38.1 |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,907 | 41.4 |
| 1993 | 84 | #1,751 | 46.4 |
| 1992 | 81 | #1,783 | 43.9 |
| 1991 | 91 | #1,640 | 48.5 |
| 1990 | 94 | #1,592 | 49.5 |
| 1989 | 108 | #1,389 | 58.6 |
| 1988 | 122 | #1,226 | 68.5 |
| 1987 | 128 | #1,151 | 73.6 |
| 1986 | 145 | #1,043 | 84.5 |
| 1985 | 119 | #1,186 | 69.2 |
| 1984 | 141 | #1,014 | 83.7 |
| 1983 | 140 | #1,010 | 83.8 |
| 1982 | 146 | #1,010 | 86.2 |
| 1981 | 90 | #1,373 | 54.0 |
| 1980 | 98 | #1,303 | 59.0 |
| 1979 | 92 | #1,339 | 57.3 |
| 1978 | 76 | #1,492 | 49.6 |
| 1977 | 63 | #1,666 | 41.1 |
| 1976 | 51 | #1,822 | 34.8 |
| 1975 | 50 | #1,843 | 34.3 |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,226 | 24.5 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,775 | 17.1 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,601 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,164 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ebonie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ebonie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ebonie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ebonie, and how old are they?
2,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,638 Americans ever recorded as Ebonie. The median Ebonie alive today is 39 years old; half are between 33 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 2,055 people named Ebonie (2,050 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,578 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 | 485 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,640 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 429 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7 |
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 Ebonie born?
The states with the most babies named Ebonie are Illinois, Texas and California, with 45% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 249 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 206 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 164 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 121 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 97 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 84 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 81 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 67 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 50 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 48 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Ebonie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ebonie is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1971 it was given 1.9 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 Ebonie 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 Ebonie?
Ebonie is a less common spelling of Ebony: SSA has recorded 2,638 Ebonie and 39,453 Ebony since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 52,315 babies since 1880, Ebonie is the third most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 23 babies recorded by SSA was a Ebonie (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 Ebonie
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 Ebonie and names like it
- Compare Ebonie and EbonyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sEbonie peaked in 1982.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ebonie since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Ebonie.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ebonie alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.