Eboni
Eboni is a female given name. Notable people with this name include:Eboni Booth, American playwright and actress Eboni Boykin, public figure Eboni Deon, American meteorologist Eboni Foster, member of Nuttin' Nyce Eboni Stocks, winner of Australia's Next Top Model Eboni Usoro-Brown, English netball player Eboni K. Williams, American celebrity
- African American
Meaning & Origin of Eboni
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Eboni is a female given name. Notable people with this name include:Eboni Booth, American playwright and actress Eboni Boykin, public figure Eboni Deon, American meteorologist Eboni Foster, member of Nuttin' Nyce Eboni Stocks, winner of Australia's Next Top Model Eboni Usoro-Brown, English netball player Eboni K. Williams, American celebrity
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- African American
The Story of Eboni
Eboni first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1970, with 15 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1982: 282 births, good for #637 nationwide. About 37% of every Eboni on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Eboni last appeared in the published SSA data in 2022, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 7K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Eboni
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About the name Eboni
Eboni is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1970 and has accumulated 7K births in the dataset. Eboni's peak popularity came in 1982 when it ranked #637. Use the chart and map above to compare Eboni's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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