girls:
1.2k births since 1974
#4536 (21st percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1974
#6558 (15th percentile)
The name Ebone is the #6,558 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,182 recorded births since 1974. This represents the 15.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,536 (20.6% percentile) for all time with 1,182 births since 1974.
Ebone first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1974 (first recorded for girls in 1974). Birth data for Ebone is available in 28 out of the 30 years between 1974 and 2003. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Ebone reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 10.8% percentile (ranked #772) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 50 births per million (ranked 10.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2003.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ebone".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Ebone. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 23.7% confident that Ebone is pronounced as EH-bohn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-bohn, at 18.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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