Ellie

Where Ellie comes from

Diminutives: Clippings + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ellie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #403 among girls — 17 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1980
    Ellie Kemper born
    American actress
  3. 1997
    Ellie Bamber born
    British actress and model
  4. 2024
    Peak, #21
    6,317 babies named Ellie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2024
    The comeback
    Back to #21 after sinking to #2,477 in 1971.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
  • A diminutive of the female given names Eleanor, Elizabeth, and Elena.
  • A diminutive of the male given names Elliot and Elliott.
Namesakes
  • Ellie Kemper · American actress, born 1980
  • Ellie Bamber · British actress and model, born 1997
  • Ellie Carpenter · Australian soccer player, born 2000
  • Ellie Kendrick · British actress, born 1990
  • Ellie Roebuck · English association football player, born 1999

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.