Ellyn

Where Ellyn comes from

Ellyn 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.

Along the way
  1. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,502 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1947
    Ellyn Stern born
    American voice actress
  3. 1952
    Peak, #994
    90 babies named Ellyn — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1959
    Ellyn Setnor Bogdanoff born
    American politician
  5. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,715.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Ellyn Setnor Bogdanoff · American politician, born 1959
  • Ellyn Stern · American voice actress, born 1947
  • Ellyn Kaschak · American psychologist, 1943–2025
  • Ellyn Jade · Canadian actress and model
  • Ellyn Ngai · Hong Kong female artist, winner of the Miss Hong Kong Pageant 2024, born 2001

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.