first name
EBONY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 30,670 people named Ebony, 86.3% reported their origin as Black, 6.5% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.3% as two or more races. 99.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Ebony peaked in 1982, when 2,315 babies got the name.
At least 39,453 babies have been given the name since 1950. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Ebony by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #312. The largest share of babies named Ebony, 63.9%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
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 Ebony is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Ebony has been most common in District of Columbia (4.8×), Louisiana (2×), and South Carolina (2×), and least common in Minnesota (0.13×).
36,996 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.
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6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Ebony, most common first.
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