Feminine dossier · first seen 1950

Ebony

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Ebony
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 99% from peak

Peak era

1982

Peak rank proxy

2,279

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Millennial

1950Peak 19822024

Peak year

1982

Decline from peak

99%

2024

All-time

38,975

Ebony once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1982, when 2,279 girls were named Ebony.

In 2024, only 23 girls were given the name.

Down 99% from its peak.

All told, about 38,975 Americans have been named Ebony and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1950.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationMillennial

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99% from peak

19822,279 girls named Ebony

202423 girls named Ebony

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