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Eboni

Girls' name

Variant of Ebony

Eboni has been given to 6,527 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1982, with 282 recorded.

Babies named Eboni, 2022

1 in 677,000

Eboni over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eboni: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Ebony

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eboni means

Eboni is a variant of Ebony.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Eboni is used in African American.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɛb.ən.i/ for Eboni.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ebony.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,522 girls were recorded with the name Eboni between 1970 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 282 in 1982; its best national rank was #637 in 1982.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Eboni between 1980 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1980; its best national rank was #6,537 in 1980.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Eboni?

Eboni had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eboni sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eboni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ebonis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eboni was born before 1989 — so the typical Eboni is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
36.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,522
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 36.8% of all recorded uses (2,399).

Is Eboni 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 1982 (282)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#637
1982

Spellings of Eboni

Eboni is not the most common spelling — Toni is, with 45.1% against Eboni'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 Eboni is used

Across 1910–2025, Eboni was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 26,714 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

016 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 6,250
  2. 2Georgia1 in 12,500
  3. 3Florida1 in 14,286
  4. 4Alabama1 in 16,667
  5. 5Illinois1 in 16,667
  6. 6Michigan1 in 16,667
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 16,667
  8. 8Virginia1 in 16,667

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. Eboni has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eboni around the world

Where Eboni 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 & Wales
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    2012–2016
    #798
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1998–1998
    #2,038
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1986–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Eboni in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Eboni. Linked forms have their own page here.

EbonEbony

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Eboni by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#637
1982
Peak year
1982
282 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
6,522
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,537
1980
Peak year
1980
5 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Eboni

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

EbonyEmoniRoniLoniAmoniEbonieHarmoniEboneArmoniAloniEboneeJoniImoniKeoniEboneyKaloniLeoniKamoniMaloniDamoniKemoniKioniToniEloni

Names with a curve like Eboni

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Eboni, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Eboni

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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