Eboni

Where Eboni comes from

Eboni hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #3,872 among girls, 15 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1982
    Peak, #637
    282 babies named Eboni — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1983
    Eboni K. Williams born
    American attorney and television host
  4. 2000
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,431.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Eboni K. Williams · American attorney and television host, born 1983

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.