Eboney
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Eboney has been given to 747 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 1980, with 46 recorded.
Babies named Eboney, 2007
1 in 400,000
Eboney 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Eboney?
Eboney had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 400,000
- 10 of 3,997,748 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 192,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 277,104 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Eboney sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 277,104 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eboney. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Eboneys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Eboney was born before 1987 — so the typical Eboney is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 46.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 70.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 747
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 46.5% of all recorded uses (347).
Is Eboney 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1980 (46)
- Years since peak
- 45
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.1% average annual change
Spellings of Eboney
Eboney is not the most common spelling — Ebony is, with 59.9% against Eboney's 1.1%.
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 Eboney is used
Across 1910–2025, Eboney was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 643,023 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
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. Eboney has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Eboney around the world
Where Eboney 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 & Wales1999–2013#5,742in 2013
- South Australia1990–2010#801in 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.
Eboney by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Eboney
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Eboney
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.