Gender-neutral · #243 in 2025

Ellis

Ellis: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#243
Born 2025
1,417
Peak year
1899

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Ellis per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 1899. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Ellis has been rising: its share of boys born has grown over the last 10 years. It now stands at 90% of its 1899 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 27% of children named Ellis were recorded as girls and 73% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Related names

More boy names starting with E

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.