Ebone vs Eboni
American parents have registered 6,527 Ebonis since 1880, against 1,182 Ebones. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Ebone Eboni
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Eboni has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1970 to 2022. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 1994, when Ebone had 93 and Eboni had 214.
Side by side
| Ebone | Eboni | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,182 | 6,527 |
| Most in one year | 98 | 282 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,200 | 6,300 |
| Median age today | 35 | 36 |
| Peak year | 1993 | 1982 |
| Best rank | 1,569th girls | 637th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1974 | 1970 |
| Girls / boys | 1,182 / 0 | 6,522 / 5 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Where each one is strongest
- Ebone North Carolina (3.8×), Louisiana (3.6×), South Carolina (3.4×)
- Eboni the District of Columbia (5.0×), Georgia (2.7×), Florida (2.1×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ebone and Eboni.