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Ebonie

Gender
Girl
Say it
EB-o-nee
Origin
English
UK rank, 2025
#2,509 for girls

Ebonie is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “ebony wood”. In 2025 it ranked 2,509th for girls in the UK (11 babies).

What does Ebonie mean?

English: spelling of Ebony; English word name, via Greek ebenos from ancient Egyptian

“ebony wood”

From the dense black wood of the ebony tree, a word that goes back to ancient Egyptian.

Meaning borrowed from Ebony. More on Wiktionary.

Is Ebonie a girl's or a boy's name?

Ebonie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Ebonie in the UK?

Rank in 2025
2,509th among girls
Babies in 2025
11 about 1 in 25,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 19% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 11 girls in the UK were named Ebonie, making it the 2,509th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,407th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 33 girls.

2025 had more girls named Ebonie than any year since 2020.

Half of all the girls named Ebonie in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2015. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

In 2025, 56 girls in the UK were given Ebonie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #667, up from #2,509 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 2,438th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 33 in 20042025
Ebonie in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202511#2,509
202410#2,644
20238#3,098
202210#2,615
20218#3,082
202011#2,407
201919#1,651
20186#3,702
201712#2,336
201623#1,498
201523#1,474
201430#1,209
201318#1,727
201223#1,474
201128#1,238
201025#1,344
200925#1,285
200824#1,293
200729#1,082
200626#1,118
200523#1,172
200433#882
200315#1,492
200221#1,121
200119#1,155
200016#1,290
199912#1,576
199823#1,015
199710#1,780
199610#1,741

How popular is Ebonie in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1982, with 146 girls. It first appears in the records in 1971.

Half of all the girls named Ebonie in the US since 1880 were born between 1982 and 1993, the years shaded on the chart below.

1971Busiest: 146 in 19822013
Ebonie in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20137#13,145
20120–
20118#12,146
201012#9,227
200915#8,054
200817#7,404
200721#6,319
200627#5,085
200520#5,994
200431#4,383
200322#5,414
200230#4,175
200135#3,699
200030#4,074
199950#2,734
199849#2,728
199767#2,099
199656#2,337
199567#2,023
199474#1,900
199384#1,749
199281#1,778
199191#1,636
199094#1,590
1989108#1,388
1988122#1,225
1987128#1,150
1986145#1,042
1985119#1,185
1984141#1,011
1983140#1,010
1982146#1,010
198190#1,368
198098#1,299
197992#1,338
197876#1,487
197763#1,661
197651#1,820
197550#1,838
197436#2,213
197325#2,753
197212#4,522
19718#6,004

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Ebonie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ebonie, updated 20 October 2026.