Ellamae
Ellamae was given to 65 girls in 2025, #2,660 among girls’ names; 2,358 Americans have been recorded with it since 1898 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Ellamae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ellamae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ellamae?
#2,660 among girls’ names, 2025
Ellamae rose from #3,721 in 2015 to #2,660 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 23.0 to 40.4 per million.
80 babies in 2021, the peak
Ellamae peaked in 2021, when 80 girls were given it, #2,293 among girls’ names. The 65 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,660 | 40.4 |
| 2024 | 75 | #2,419 | 46.3 |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,765 | 38.6 |
| 2022 | 76 | #2,413 | 46.3 |
| 2021 | 80 | #2,293 | 48.8 |
| 2020 | 75 | #2,349 | 46.4 |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,542 | 41.1 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,172 | 30.0 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,976 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,072 | 30.5 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,721 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 54 | #3,088 | 30.2 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,797 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,321 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,250 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,452 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,785 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,157 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,765 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,740 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,917 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,940 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,234 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,604 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,773 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,855 | 2.8 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,716 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,244 | 3.6 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,221 | 3.2 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,640 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,546 | 4.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,044 | 3.5 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,251 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,436 | 6.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,335 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,803 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,785 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,053 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,053 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,671 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,520 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,086 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 24 | #1,707 | 18.4 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,227 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,177 | 12.2 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,330 | 11.1 |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,575 | 20.7 |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,530 | 22.7 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,816 | 17.3 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,562 | 21.7 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,745 | 18.8 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,517 | 23.1 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,863 | 17.2 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,784 | 18.2 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,484 | 24.8 |
| 1932 | 25 | #1,533 | 23.4 |
| 1931 | 33 | #1,262 | 31.0 |
| 1930 | 31 | #1,378 | 27.5 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,318 | 29.6 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,555 | 23.4 |
| 1927 | 41 | #1,217 | 34.4 |
| 1926 | 40 | #1,228 | 33.7 |
| 1925 | 48 | #1,105 | 39.4 |
| 1924 | 55 | #1,049 | 44.0 |
| 1923 | 52 | #1,056 | 43.1 |
| 1922 | 70 | #874 | 58.3 |
| 1921 | 54 | #1,019 | 43.8 |
| 1920 | 55 | #993 | 45.9 |
| 1919 | 39 | #1,200 | 34.5 |
| 1918 | 59 | #931 | 51.0 |
| 1917 | 36 | #1,211 | 33.3 |
| 1916 | 43 | #1,067 | 41.2 |
| 1915 | 42 | #1,027 | 42.7 |
| 1914 | 32 | #1,066 | 42.0 |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,241 | 33.6 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,747 | 19.7 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,393 | 28.7 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,553 | 25.2 |
| 1909 | 15 | #1,067 | 43.2 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,578 | 23.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,428 | 28.3 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,360 | 30.5 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,334 | 30.9 |
| 1904 | 14 | #971 | 50.8 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,383 | 29.2 |
| 1900 | 14 | #1,020 | 46.7 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,670 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,408 | 27.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ellamae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ellamae has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 88 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ellamae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ellamae, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 51% of the 2,358 Americans ever recorded as Ellamae. The median Ellamae alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,321 people named Ellamae (1,318 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 902 born in the U.S. The Census count is 46% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 114 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 93 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 197 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 781 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,369 babies since 1880, Ellamae is the most given (70% of them). In 2025 it was given to 65 of their 154 babies (42%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ellamae
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ellamae and names like it
- Compare Ellamae and ElliemaeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEllamae peaked in 2021.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ellamae since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Ellamae.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ellamae alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.