girls:
39k births since 1950
#690 (88th percentile)
boys:
455 births since 1971
#4131 (10th percentile)
overall:
39.4k births since 1950
#1252 (84th percentile)
The name Ebony is the #1,252 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 39,408 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 83.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #690 (87.9% percentile) for all time with 38,953 births since 1950. For boys, it ranks #4,131 (9.9% percentile) for all time with 455 births since 1971.
Ebony first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (1950 for girls and 1971 for boys). Birth data for Ebony is available in 59 out of the 74 years between 1950 and 2023 (59 years for girls and 29 years for boys). 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.
The name Ebony has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ebony reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 83.5% percentile (ranked #132) with 1,256 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 1,256 births per million (ranked 83.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1986, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ebony ranks #933 for girls (1.5% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ebony reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 4.5% percentile (ranked #660) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 19 births per million (ranked 4.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ebony".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Ebony is pronounced as EH-buh-nee, which has 3 syllables.
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