Ebony
Recorded for both sexesMillennial2025 rank
#5,452
up +43 places
2025 births
23
unchanged births
All-time births
38,998
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1982
- 2,279 births
- Best rank
- #132
- in 1982
- First recorded
- 1950
- #4,895 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1988
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 61 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19822,279#132Peak
- 19832,219#135
- 19842,130#137
- 19851,787#160
- 19871,748#157
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #132 in 1982 · peak births 2,279 in 1982
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 1% boys■ 99% girls
455 boys · 38,998 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Ebony has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.