Ellamay
Ellamay was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,694 among girls’ names; 202 Americans have been recorded with it since 1906 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ellamay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ellamay?
#13,694 among girls’ names, 2025
Ellamay fell from #12,161 in 2015 to #13,694 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.7 per million.
11 babies in 1916, the peak
Ellamay peaked in 1916, when 11 girls were given it, #2,713 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,694 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,542 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,861 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,611 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,969 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,922 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,299 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,016 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,092 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,161 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #17,323 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,396 | 3.4 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,590 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,183 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,471 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,523 | 6.9 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,012 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,062 | 4.2 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,756 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,733 | 6.6 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,755 | 6.7 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,096 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,953 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,095 | 8.6 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,234 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,713 | 10.5 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,916 | 6.1 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,034 | 16.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ellamay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ellamay has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ellamay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ellamay, and how old are they?
An estimated 89 Americans named Ellamay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 195 people named Ellamay (195 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 60 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 times 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.
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 2,799 babies since 1880, Ellamay is the second most given (7.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 84 babies (7.1%), the third 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 Ellamay
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 Ellamay and names like it
- Compare Ellamay and EllamaeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sEllamay peaked in 1916.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Ellamay.
- Names starting with EMost given first.