How rare is the name Ellie?

70,661 people in the United States have the first name Ellie, about 1 in 4,274. It ranks #724 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ELLIE

#724

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
70,661
About
1 in 4,274
This common or more
65%
Who bears it

Of the 70,661 people named Ellie, 76.6% reported their origin as White, 10.9% as Hispanic or Latino and 6.2% as Asian or Pacific Islander. 99.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Ellie peaked in 2024, when 6,322 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2024
Births that year
6,322
In 2025*
6,176 ▼2%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 106,857 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Ellie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #81. The largest share of babies named Ellie, 65.2%, were born in 2013 or later.

1880s#629346
1890s#623516
1900s#676613
1910s#1,096974
1920s#1,348981
1930s#1,649600
1940s#1,975534
1950s#2,131622
1960s#2,292623
1970s#2,680585
1980s#2,533782
1990s#1,1693,564
2000s#41517,061
2010s#15143,299
2020s#8135,757
Before 19010.9%
Greatest Generation 1901–272.2%
Silent Generation 1928–451%
Baby boom 1946–641.1%
Generation X 1965–800.9%
Millennials 1981–962.4%
Generation Z 1997–1226.4%
2013 and later65.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Ellie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Ellie has been most common in Utah (3.5×), Idaho (2.5×), and Nevada (2.3×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.22×).

101,019 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Ellie

#722 Sherri · 70,746#723 Summer · 70,693#725 Pauline · 70,447#726 Misty · 70,424

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Ellie, most common first.

#1,830 Elle · 15,938#4,562 Elie · 4,034#5,310 Elli · 3,262#9,970 Ellia · 1,360#11,453 Ellee · 1,118

Also a last name

As a last name, Ellie ranks #82,347 of 156,621, with 247 people. See Ellie as a last name

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