In 2025, 73 US girls were named Ellia, making it the 2,445th most common girls’ name of the year, down 429 places from #2,016 in 2024. That is 24 fewer than the 97 girls named Ellia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,720, reached in 2018. The most girls given the name in a single year was 123, in 2017. For comparison, it was #2,174 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ellia in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 6 babies. In all, 1,773 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 818 babies named Ellia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 973 US girls were named Ellia; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 123. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,017 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ellia ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,377 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elia (10,159 babies since 1880), Eli (154,512 babies since 1880), Ellie (106,857 babies since 1880) and Elio (5,174 babies since 1880).