Ebony
40
Babies in 2024
-79%
10-year change
2005
Peak · 478
-36%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Ebony
Ebony peaked among UK girls' names in the late 2000s (478 babies in 2005) and has remained in active use — 40 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Ebony reached its peak in 2005, when 478 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #106 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 40 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 7,129 girls have been officially registered with the name Ebony in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,179 girls were registered with the name, starting from 187 in 2014 and ending at 40 in 2024.