How rare is the name Eboni?

5,109 people in the United States have the first name Eboni, about 1 in 59,118. It ranks #3,853 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

EBONI

#3,853

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,109
About
1 in 59,118
This common or more
83.1%
Who bears it

Of the 5,109 people named Eboni, 89.8% reported their origin as Black, 4.1% as two or more races and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Eboni peaked in 1982, when 282 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19702022
Peak year
1982
Births that year
282
In 2022
5 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,527 babies have been given the name since 1970. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Eboni by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,292. The largest share of babies named Eboni, 58.8%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1970s#2,016953
1980s#1,2922,404
1990s#1,6132,181
2000s#3,915798
2010s#11,750173
2020s#27,87718
Generation X 1965–8017.8%
Millennials 1981–9658.8%
Generation Z 1997–1221.8%
2013 and later1.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Eboni is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Eboni has been most common in District of Columbia (5×), Georgia (2.7×), and Florida (2.1×), and least common in Indiana (0.27×).

4,987 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Eboni

#3,851 Varun · 5,111#3,852 Leighann · 5,110#3,854 Kalen · 5,108#3,855 Jerod · 5,107

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Eboni, most common first.

#1,238 Ebony · 30,670#7,437 Ebonie · 2,055#12,997 Ebone · 940#28,678 Ebon · 312

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