Meaning not yet researched.
Elly: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 129 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,254 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,254 in 2010; #1,613 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elly in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,613 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #1,254.
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Elly: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 129 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,254 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 191 (2010).
In 2025, 129 US girls were named Elly, making it the 1,613th most common girls’ name of the year, up 123 places from #1,736 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 117 girls named Elly in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,254, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 191. For comparison, it was #1,488 in 2015 and #4,429 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elly in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 9 babies. In all, 4,595 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,607 babies named Elly.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,339 US girls were named Elly; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 167. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,459 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elly ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #1,181 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ella (352,214 babies since 1880), Ellie (106,857 babies since 1880), Elle (19,247 babies since 1880) and Ally (10,247 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Illya and Eilley are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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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: Illya (404), Eilley (57).
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 Elly in the open dataset we use.
Elly is listed as a nickname for Ellie, Elmira.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 7 | #1,181 | — |
| Florida | 10 | #1,358 | #1,695 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,423 | — |
| California | 15 | #1,517 | #1,181 |
| New York | 8 | #1,564 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #3,442 | #1,490 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 2024 | 117 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 2023 | 113 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 2022 | 136 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 2021 | 117 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 2020 | 140 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 2019 | 139 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 2018 | 135 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 2017 | 146 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 2016 | 167 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 2015 | 154 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 2014 | 174 | #1,348 | — | — |
| 2013 | 176 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 2012 | 168 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 2011 | 157 | #1,440 | — | — |
| 2010 | 191 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 2009 | 138 | #1,623 | 5 | #13,041 |
| 2008 | 122 | #1,791 | — | — |
| 2007 | 133 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 2006 | 130 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 2005 | 114 | #1,733 | — | — |
| 2004 | 122 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 2003 | 100 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 2002 | 101 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 2001 | 76 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 2000 | 62 | #2,465 | — | — |
| 1999 | 86 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,595 | — | — |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,178 | — | — |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,253 | — | — |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,695 | — | — |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,556 | — | — |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,010 | — | — |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,440 | — | — |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,654 | — | — |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,738 | — | — |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,000 | — | — |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,705 | — | — |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,342 | — | — |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,478 | — | — |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,018 | — | — |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,538 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,549 | — | — |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,559 | — | — |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,010 | — | — |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,762 | — | — |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,877 | — | — |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,669 | — | — |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,799 | 5 | #6,149 |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,952 | — | — |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,310 | — | — |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,136 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,972 | — | — |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,204 | — | — |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,552 | — | — |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,760 | — | — |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,505 | — | — |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,363 | — | — |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,720 | — | — |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,796 | — | — |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,083 | — | — |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,938 | — | — |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,221 | — | — |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,854 | — | — |
| 1961 | 18 | #2,989 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,326 | — | — |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,677 | — | — |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,601 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,644 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,474 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,864 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,060 | — | — |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,780 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,086 | — | — |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,335 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,429 | — | — |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,356 | — | — |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,480 | — | — |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,256 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,997 | — | — |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,304 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,218 | — | — |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,008 | — | — |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,017 | — | — |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,336 | — | — |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,177 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,123 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,226 | — | — |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,489 | — | — |
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).