Ellie Girl
How popular is Ellie?
#24 girl name in 2025
6,176 baby girls were named Ellie in the US in 2025, making it the 24th most popular girl name.
Ellie popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #24 for girls (▼ 3 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 6,176 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+27% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #48 in 2015, #29 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2024 (6,317 girls) |
| Highest rank | #21 in 2024 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 4% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Ellie counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Ellie family of names ranked #32 for girls in 2025 (#33 the year before), with 6,466 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ellie | 6,176 | 96% |
| Elly | 129 | 2% |
| Elli | 56 | 1% |
| Ellee | 48 | 1% |
| Elleigh | 38 | 1% |
| Elley | 13 | 0% |
| Elee | 6 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Ellie is most popular
Babies named Ellie per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Alaska: 11.0 per 1,000 (95 girls)
- North Dakota: 10.8 per 1,000 (142 girls)
- Vermont: 9.5 per 1,000 (46 girls)
- West Virginia: 9.4 per 1,000 (246 girls)
- Wyoming: 9.1 per 1,000 (39 girls)
Ellie by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 306 | #290 |
| 1890s | 453 | #386 |
| 1900s | 533 | #380 |
| 1910s | 781 | #567 |
| 1920s | 767 | #760 |
| 1930s | 441 | #993 |
| 1940s | 395 | #1,101 |
| 1950s | 542 | #1,260 |
| 1960s | 576 | #1,262 |
| 1970s | 567 | #1,459 |
| 1980s | 767 | #1,236 |
| 1990s | 3,559 | #394 |
| 2000s | 17,025 | #145 |
| 2010s | 43,240 | #35 |
| 2020s | 35,725 | #21 |
Girl names about as popular as Ellie
Questions
- Is Ellie a boy or girl name?
- Ellie is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Ellie were girls.
- How popular is the name Ellie?
- 6,176 baby girls were named Ellie in the US in 2025, making it the 24th most popular girl name.
- When was Ellie most popular?
- Ellie peaked in 2024, when 6,317 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #21 in 2024.
- How many people are named Ellie?
- 106,857 babies have been named Ellie in the US since 1880. We estimate about 101,996 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 9.
- Where is Ellie most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Ellie was most common in Alaska, at 11.0 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.