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Ellery

girls’ name · 67%boys’ name · 33%Steady · modern nameCompare

Ellery is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 172 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
1720.01% of girls
Peak year
2014256 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1959
6,808people given the name
Babies named Ellery, by year of birthgirlsboys
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The story in the numbers

4,556 girls have been named Ellery in the United States since 1959, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 256 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 46%.

Ellery is used for both sexes: 33% of its bearers are boys (2,252), most of them born around 1959.

By decade

Decadegirls named Ellery
1950s5
1960s5
1970s34
1980s78
1990s326
2000s1,046
2010s2,073
2020s989

In 2014, its biggest year

Ellery was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2014 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2014.

Names that rose and fell with Ellery

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.