Ebonie
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ebonie has been given to 2,638 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 1982, with 146 recorded.
Babies named Ebonie, 2013
1 in 521,000
Ebonie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ebonie?
Ebonie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2013
- 1 in 521,000
- 7 of 3,645,938 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 251,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2013
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 361,026 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ebonie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 361,026 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ebonie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ebonies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ebonie was born before 1987 — so the typical Ebonie is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 46.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 41.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,638
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 46.9% of all recorded uses (1,237).
Is Ebonie 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1982 (146)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.3% average annual change
Spellings of Ebonie
Ebonie is not the most common spelling — Bonnie is, with 78.6% against Ebonie's 0.63%.
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 Ebonie is used
Across 1910–2025, Ebonie was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 88,090 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in 33,333
- 2District of Columbia1 in 50,000
- 3Florida1 in 50,000
- 4Georgia1 in 50,000
- 5Louisiana1 in 50,000
- 6North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 7Texas1 in 50,000
- 8Alabama1 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. Ebonie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ebonie around the world
Where Ebonie 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 & Wales1996–2025#2,440in 2025
- South Australia1980–2012#563in 2012
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.
Ebonie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ebonie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Ebonie
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ebonie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Ebonie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.