Ebonye
Ebonye was last recorded in 1989, when 6 babies were given it; 106 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ebonye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ebonye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,234, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1981, the peak
Ebonye peaked in 1981, when 13 girls were given it, #5,344 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 6 | #11,234 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,537 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,212 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,734 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,583 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,405 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,493 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,344 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,824 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,859 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 7 | #7,844 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,741 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,433 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,278 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ebonye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ebonye has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ebonye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ebonye, and how old are they?
An estimated 102 Americans named Ebonye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 40 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 115 people named Ebonye (113 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 103 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 52,437 babies since 1880, Ebonye is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 23 babies recorded by SSA was a Ebonye (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 Ebonye
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 Ebonye and names like it
- Compare Ebonye and EbonyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sEbonye peaked in 1981.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Ebonye.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ebonye alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.