Ellen
Ellen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 244 births. Its best rank was 58th, in 1946.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2440.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 19515,945 births
- Best rank
- #58in 1946
- Since 1880
- 275,048people given the name
The story in the numbers
275,048 girls have been named Ellen in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1951, with 5,945 births — 0.33% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 244 births in 2024, against 5,945 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1950s alone account for 20%. It has spent 142 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 77 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ellen | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5,402 | |
| 1890s | 7,435 | |
| 1900s | 8,339 | |
| 1910s | 21,500 | |
| 1920s | 28,391 | |
| 1930s | 25,139 | |
| 1940s | 45,405 | |
| 1950s | 55,390 | |
| 1960s | 34,146 | |
| 1970s | 11,422 | |
| 1980s | 10,240 | |
| 1990s | 11,346 | |
| 2000s | 5,543 | |
| 2010s | 3,987 | |
| 2020s | 1,363 |
In 1951, its biggest year
Ellen was the 68th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1951 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Deborah and Barbara. See all of 1951.
Names that rose and fell with Ellen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Janiepeak 1947
- Kittypeak 1947
- Drucillapeak 1949
- Pattiepeak 1958
- Marthapeak 1947
- Pollypeak 1964
- Nanpeak 1947
- Myrapeak 1958
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.