To end ✊🏾Black History Month, I wanted to discuss the divisive name: 📛🖤Ebony — and how despite how bold the name is and how controversial (being called "an ebony" because of your skin tone 🤦🏾♀️ not because it's your name 😬) it can be — it still has been a popular first name choice for Black 👶🏿 baby girls 💗 since the 1970s. ⏪
Ebony is a color 🖤 name and is described by 🌈Color Psychology🧠 as: "a dark, rich color that represents depth, elegance, and sophistication. It’s a shade that is often associated with luxury, power, and mystery. The hex code for Ebony is #555D50, and its RGB values are (85, 93, 80), symbolizing a hue that is deep and grounding."
Ebony as a word via Dictionary.com:
Ebony is also a nature name, being it is a tree 🌳: "The black ebony tree (Diospyros ebenum), native to Southeast Asia and parts of Africa, is one of the rarest and most valuable hardwood species in the world. Black ebony wood is prized for its deep, jet-black color, fine texture, and exceptional density —this wood is ideal for musical 🎹 instruments, luxury furniture, and fine carvings."
Ebony the word is from the Egyptian word hbnj.
Nameberry🍒 points out that Ebony has "historically been particularly popular in the African-American community" and compliments Ebony as an "attractive and now underused" name. "Ebony joined the most popular girl names list in the US in the early 1970s, peaked 📈 in 1982 at #132, and dropped back below 📉 the Top 1000 in 2006. The name Ebony 📈peaked for boys 💙 at #1658 in 1982." As of current, Ebony is #960 on US ⬆Top 📊1000.
The 📍District of Columbia and 📍New Jersey are the states where the most women named Ebony live. I knew a girl named Ebony (who was as popular as her name) in middle 🏫school [📍NYC], right around the time when 📛Ebony was regaining traction on the name charts 📈 in the 1980s.
I like the name 📛Ebony. 👌🏾 I really love color names and 📛Ebony can be a 🖤 beautiful, powerful 💪🏿 name to have if you're an African American woman (btw, there can be / are non-Black women named Ebony 🙃 click here & click here 😮). I don't like 📛Ebony for a 💙 boy's name 😕 however (I'd recommend these cool 😎 names that are the equivalence of "black": 📛Jet, 📛Obsidian, 📛Onyx, 📛Midnight or 📛Raven even).
Variants for 📛Ebony include: 📛Eboni 📛Ebonie and 📛Ebonee. I find all of these more playful 
and cuter 🥰 than the more ✔strong, ✔sleek and ✔original 📛Ebony.
⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛🖤EBONYS:
📛Venus 🖤Ebony Starr Williams 🎾(tennis player)
📛🖤Ebony Williams 🏀 (former WNBA basketball player)
📛🖤Ebony Haith 👠 (former contestant on reality show America's Next Top Model)
📛🖤Ebony Jones-Avery 📺 (former reality star on VH1's Real Chance of Love)
📛🖤Ebony Obsidian 📺 (actress)
📛🖤Ebony Bones [born 🖤Ebony Thomas] 🎤 (singer)
📛🖤Ebony Riley 🎤 (singer)
📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛🖤Ebony:
https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/E/EB/EBONY/index.html
☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛🖤Ebony: 👍 OR 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤/10
