Meaning not yet researched.
Ellis: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,417 in 2025. Its best rank was #155 in 1899.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #155 in 1899; #243 in 2025. About 77% of babies named Ellis in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#243 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1899, at #155.
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Ellis: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,417 boys in 2025. Peak: #155 in 1899 · most boys in one year: 1,417 (2025).
In 2025, 1,417 US boys were named Ellis, making it the 243rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 30 places from #273 in 2024. That is 167 more than the 1,250 boys named Ellis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #155, reached in 1899. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,417, in 2025. For comparison, it was #422 in 2015 and #319 in 1950.
In 2025, 415 US girls were named Ellis, making it the 682nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 15 places from #697 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 404 girls named Ellis in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #597, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 501. For comparison, it was #963 in 2015 and #2,070 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ellis in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 58 babies with the name. In all, 57,731 US babies have been given the name, 13% of them girls and 87% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 9,865 babies named Ellis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,186 US boys were named Ellis; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,417. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,205 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ellis ranked highest in Maine in 2025, at #131 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elias (129,502 babies since 1880), Elise (75,252 babies since 1880), Eloise (72,815 babies since 1880) and Elois (2,652 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Eules, Eulus and Eulos are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Eules (38), Eulus (22), Eulos (10), Eulys (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ellis in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 10 | #131 | #223 |
| Arkansas | 26 | #135 | #259 |
| Louisiana | 37 | #137 | #339 |
| Tennessee | 69 | #139 | #485 |
| District of Columbia | 6 | #145 | — |
| South Carolina | 36 | #163 | #228 |
| Colorado | 43 | #166 | #350 |
| Missouri | 42 | #168 | #397 |
| Iowa | 25 | #172 | #303 |
| North Dakota | 7 | #179 | #261 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #190 | — |
| Utah | 29 | #190 | #346 |
| Alabama | 30 | #193 | #348 |
| Washington | 42 | #199 | #336 |
| South Dakota | 7 | #200 | — |
| Indiana | 41 | #203 | #363 |
| Michigan | 49 | #205 | #433 |
| Wisconsin | 30 | #206 | #295 |
| West Virginia | 9 | #207 | — |
| Ohio | 62 | #209 | #374 |
| Kansas | 19 | #210 | #342 |
| Georgia | 58 | #213 | #415 |
| Connecticut | 16 | #213 | #476 |
| North Carolina | 57 | #217 | #340 |
| Pennsylvania | 58 | #218 | #438 |
| Oregon | 19 | #222 | #410 |
| Kentucky | 25 | #224 | #469 |
| Virginia | 39 | #226 | #417 |
| Minnesota | 28 | #227 | #358 |
| Montana | 5 | #246 | #256 |
| Nebraska | 9 | #273 | #399 |
| Illinois | 39 | #282 | #456 |
| Mississippi | 11 | #292 | #436 |
| Arizona | 26 | #300 | #535 |
| New York | 61 | #302 | #471 |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #324 | #528 |
| Texas | 115 | #324 | #483 |
| California | 101 | #347 | #409 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #405 | #455 |
| Florida | 48 | #405 | #610 |
| Maryland | 12 | #420 | #460 |
| Nevada | 6 | #463 | — |
| New Jersey | 11 | #615 | #738 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 415 | #682 | 1,417 | #243 |
| 2024 | 404 | #697 | 1,250 | #273 |
| 2023 | 375 | #752 | 1,230 | #275 |
| 2022 | 422 | #699 | 1,094 | #307 |
| 2021 | 501 | #597 | 1,038 | #320 |
| 2020 | 472 | #618 | 1,010 | #326 |
| 2019 | 398 | #717 | 976 | #343 |
| 2018 | 352 | #775 | 1,063 | #318 |
| 2017 | 380 | #743 | 1,109 | #311 |
| 2016 | 337 | #844 | 999 | #347 |
| 2015 | 282 | #963 | 740 | #422 |
| 2014 | 238 | #1,076 | 680 | #443 |
| 2013 | 227 | #1,087 | 501 | #531 |
| 2012 | 216 | #1,140 | 403 | #611 |
| 2011 | 186 | #1,276 | 313 | #726 |
| 2010 | 151 | #1,491 | 314 | #729 |
| 2009 | 124 | #1,762 | 328 | #721 |
| 2008 | 110 | #1,919 | 276 | #795 |
| 2007 | 111 | #1,879 | 262 | #815 |
| 2006 | 100 | #1,993 | 267 | #777 |
| 2005 | 85 | #2,169 | 246 | #790 |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,232 | 212 | #839 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,849 | 211 | #830 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,412 | 177 | #911 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,888 | 167 | #928 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,757 | 209 | #787 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,739 | 180 | #837 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,858 | 184 | #817 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,122 | 196 | #759 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,657 | 187 | #782 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,039 | 166 | #835 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,732 | 160 | #847 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,311 | 167 | #819 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,416 | 186 | #766 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,090 | 189 | #741 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,582 | 181 | #757 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,118 | 172 | #752 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,404 | 146 | #780 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,449 | 162 | #718 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,530 | 161 | #714 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,781 | 148 | #726 |
| 1984 | — | — | 134 | #749 |
| 1983 | — | — | 139 | #732 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,968 | 123 | #799 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,954 | 157 | #689 |
| 1980 | — | — | 172 | #661 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,652 | 168 | #659 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,134 | 136 | #722 |
| 1977 | — | — | 154 | #683 |
| 1976 | — | — | 175 | #619 |
| 1975 | — | — | 137 | #709 |
| 1974 | — | — | 169 | #619 |
| 1973 | — | — | 182 | #587 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,638 | 153 | #645 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,653 | 204 | #573 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,350 | 186 | #594 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,798 | 205 | #548 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,464 | 203 | #536 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,080 | 216 | #511 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,009 | 227 | #504 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,445 | 230 | #502 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,059 | 286 | #468 |
| 1963 | — | — | 267 | #491 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,854 | 276 | #480 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,643 | 328 | #444 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,403 | 358 | #421 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,750 | 317 | #452 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,273 | 356 | #415 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,536 | 387 | #392 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,975 | 419 | #359 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,105 | 371 | #375 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,800 | 380 | #365 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,028 | 453 | #331 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,610 | 422 | #338 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,727 | 404 | #340 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,070 | 461 | #319 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,844 | 430 | #330 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,520 | 450 | #316 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,798 | 510 | #306 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,289 | 500 | #289 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,639 | 417 | #292 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,435 | 450 | #282 |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,098 | 495 | #274 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,067 | 492 | #268 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,571 | 443 | #272 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,030 | 430 | #270 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,964 | 418 | #266 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,262 | 476 | #248 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,353 | 451 | #252 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,304 | 428 | #260 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,993 | 438 | #257 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,612 | 430 | #261 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,738 | 426 | #254 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,405 | 436 | #260 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,898 | 456 | #251 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,740 | 523 | #242 |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,119 | 545 | #232 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,799 | 544 | #238 |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,122 | 579 | #229 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,756 | 607 | #224 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,055 | 613 | #220 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,705 | 627 | #216 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,961 | 657 | #204 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,852 | 625 | #210 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,939 | 682 | #203 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,499 | 646 | #204 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,293 | 634 | #198 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,708 | 624 | #206 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,021 | 574 | #201 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,286 | 570 | #200 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,639 | 618 | #182 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,937 | 426 | #195 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,620 | 391 | #174 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,207 | 282 | #202 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,024 | 167 | #185 |
| 1910 | — | — | 147 | #185 |
| 1909 | — | — | 131 | #178 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,464 | 123 | #177 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,687 | 120 | #182 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,798 | 101 | #177 |
| 1905 | — | — | 103 | #181 |
| 1904 | — | — | 106 | #173 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,657 | 110 | #160 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,155 | 112 | #158 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,537 | 74 | #195 |
| 1900 | — | — | 120 | #173 |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,204 | 98 | #155 |
| 1898 | — | — | 96 | #170 |
| 1897 | — | — | 98 | #157 |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,154 | 106 | #156 |
| 1895 | — | — | 100 | #156 |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,268 | 83 | #182 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,322 | 79 | #185 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,519 | 89 | #177 |
| 1891 | — | — | 66 | #189 |
| 1890 | — | — | 71 | #190 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,056 | 80 | #168 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,180 | 71 | #206 |
| 1887 | — | — | 66 | #188 |
| 1886 | — | — | 85 | #163 |
| 1885 | — | — | 78 | #169 |
| 1884 | — | — | 73 | #188 |
| 1883 | 7 | #771 | 73 | #168 |
| 1882 | — | — | 86 | #159 |
| 1881 | — | — | 58 | #194 |
| 1880 | — | — | 58 | #210 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).