Ellamae

Where Ellamae comes from

Ellamae hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,379 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1899
    Ellamae Ellis League born
    American architect
  3. 1918
    Ellamae Simmons born
    American immunologist
  4. 1922
    Peak, #872
    70 babies named Ellamae — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1928
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,541.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ellamae Ellis League · American architect, 1899–1991
  • Ellamae Simmons · American immunologist, 1918–2019

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.