Ebonee
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ebonee has been given to 1,662 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1991, with 97 recorded.
Babies named Ebonee, 2012
1 in 457,000
Ebonee 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ebonee?
Ebonee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2012
- 1 in 457,000
- 8 of 3,657,590 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 220,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2012
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 316,907 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ebonee sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 316,907 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ebonee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ebonees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ebonee was born before 1989 — so the typical Ebonee is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 43.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 57.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,662
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 43.6% of all recorded uses (724).
Is Ebonee 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 1991 (97)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.1% average annual change
Spellings of Ebonee
Ebonee is not the most common spelling — Ebony is, with 67.4% against Ebonee's 2.9%.
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 Ebonee is used
Across 1910–2025, Ebonee was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 196,799 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 50,000
- 2District of Columbia1 in 100,000
- 3Florida1 in 100,000
- 4Illinois1 in 100,000
- 5Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 6Tennessee1 in 100,000
- 7Texas1 in 100,000
- 8Virginia1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Ebonee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ebonee around the world
Where Ebonee 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 & Wales2000–2015#5,730in 2015
- South Australia1980–2011#840in 2011
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.
Ebonee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ebonee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ebonee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.