Ellie

What Ellie means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Ellie yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #48 in 2015 to #24 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US girls in the 2025 records Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ellie?

US: Rising: up from #48 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #47 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 6,317 girls got the name (#21 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 260 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 618 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 210 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in VT (15.4 per 1,000 girls), AK (12.7 per 1,000 girls), ND (12.22 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Ellie is #24 in the US and #119 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Ellie were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Allie529 US · 13 E&W
• Elia263 US · 39 E&W
• Eleia90 US · 14 E&W
• Elaia58 US · 30 E&W
• Ellia73 US · 12 E&W
• Ollie80 US · 3 E&W
• Elie10 US
• Ellea9 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Ellie

Girls

• Selah#216“to hang”^*
• Willow#44From the word “willow”^*
• Elianna#218Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #598 in 2015, #218 in 2025
• Parker#106From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Elliana#139Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #301 in 2015, #139 in 2025
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*

For a brother

• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Declan#139Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #139 vs #372 in 2025
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Leonardo#91Italian, from Old French Leonard, meaning “as strong as a lion”^*
• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ellie’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.