girls:
1.7k births since 1971
#4100 (28th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1971
#6087 (21st percentile)
The name Ebonee is the #6,087 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,662 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 21.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,100 (28.3% percentile) for all time with 1,662 births since 1971.
Ebonee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (first recorded for girls in 1971). Birth data for Ebonee is available in 41 out of the 42 years between 1971 and 2012. 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, Ebonee reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 10.8% percentile (ranked #758) with 48 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 49 births per million (ranked 10.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ebonee".
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Our model has identified 11 different pronunciations for the name Ebonee. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 17.9% confident that Ebonee is pronounced as ih-BOH-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ih-boh-NEE, at 15.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like IH0 B OW1 N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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