Meaning and history
Ebony comes from the English word for the black wood of the ebony tree, ultimately derived from the Egyptian word hbnj. In the United States, the name is most commonly used in the Black community.
20062006: 227 births, rank #1,102
2007: 208 births, rank #1,205
2008: 182 births, rank #1,345
2009: 171 births, rank #1,383
2010: 119 births, rank #1,747
20112011: 98 births, rank #2,000
2012: 94 births, rank #2,047
2013: 105 births, rank #1,900
2014: 71 births, rank #2,517
2015: 56 births, rank #3,024
20162016: 70 births, rank #2,539
2017: 47 births, rank #3,346
2018: 45 births, rank #3,438
2019: 37 births, rank #3,923
2020: 29 births, rank #4,548
20212021: 33 births, rank #4,245
2022: 28 births, rank #4,793
2023: 19 births, rank #6,169
2024: 23 births, rank #5,443
20252025: 23 births, rank #5,410
Ebony moved from #818 to #961 for girls between 2004 and 2005. Its highest annual birth count came in 1982, with 2,279 births.