# Ellie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ellie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Elleigh |
| US babies named this | 106,857 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,180 / 105,677 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 63,782, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3,064 | 97 |
| 2012 | 3,388 | 85 |
| 2013 | 3,766 | 74 |
| 2014 | 4,487 | 55 |
| 2015 | 4,873 | 48 |
| 2016 | 5,074 | 43 |
| 2017 | 5,020 | 44 |
| 2018 | 5,223 | 36 |
| 2019 | 5,433 | 35 |
| 2020 | 5,606 | 29 |
| 2021 | 5,867 | 30 |
| 2022 | 5,787 | 33 |
| 2023 | 5,972 | 27 |
| 2024 | 6,317 | 21 |
| 2025 | 6,176 | 24 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 7 | 9,873 |
| 2008 | 5 | 13,117 |
| 2010 | 5 | 12,829 |
| 2012 | 7 | 10,026 |
| 2014 | 12 | 6,755 |
| 2015 | 6 | 11,084 |
| 2016 | 6 | 11,124 |
| 2017 | 7 | 10,005 |
| 2018 | 10 | 7,764 |
| 2019 | 6 | 11,171 |
| 2020 | 9 | 8,259 |
| 2021 | 5 | 12,689 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9,229 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12,777 |
| 2024 | 5 | 12,855 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,893 | 28 |
| 2012 | 1,527 | 35 |
| 2013 | 1,249 | 43 |
| 2014 | 1,308 | 43 |
| 2015 | 1,185 | 47 |
| 2016 | 1,142 | 48 |
| 2017 | 1,055 | 50 |
| 2018 | 919 | 60 |
| 2019 | 838 | 63 |
| 2020 | 772 | 67 |
| 2021 | 638 | 78 |
| 2022 | 590 | 82 |
| 2023 | 574 | 82 |
| 2024 | 534 | 88 |
| 2025 | 410 | 119 |

## People named Ellie

- Ellie Kemper, American actress
- Ellie Carpenter, Australian soccer player
- Ellie Bamber, British actress and model
- Ellie Kendrick, British actress
- Ellie Black, Canadian artistic gymnast
- Ellie Roebuck, English association football player
- Ellie Cornell, American actress
- Ellie Cole, Australian Paralympic swimmer
- Ellie Reeves, British politician (born 1980)
- Ellie Kam, American figure skater
- Ellie Highwood, climatologist, atmospheric physics, meteorologist, environmentalist
- Ellie Kildunne, English rugby union player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.