Ebon
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ebon has been given to 269 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Ebon, 2019
1 in 694,000
Ebon over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ebon?
Ebon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 694,000
- 5 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 359,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,354 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ebon sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ebon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ebons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ebon was born before 1987 — so the typical Ebon is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 36.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 39.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 269
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (98).
Is Ebon rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1977 (16)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.1% average annual change
Spellings of Ebon
Ebon is not the most common spelling — Evan is, with 19.6% against Ebon's 0.02%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Ebon is used
Across 1910–2025, Ebon was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ebon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ebon around the world
Where Ebon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2008–2024#5,120in 2024
- South Australia2010–2010#754in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ebon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ebon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ebon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.