Ellee
Ellee was given to 48 girls in 2025, #3,266 among girls’ names; 1,449 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,440 Americans named Ellee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ellee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ellee?
#3,266 among girls’ names, 2025
Ellee fell from #3,190 in 2015 to #3,266 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 29.1 to 29.9 per million.
85 babies in 2013, the peak
Ellee peaked in 2013, when 85 girls were given it, #2,194 among girls’ names. The 48 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,266 | 29.9 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,188 | 30.9 |
| 2023 | 53 | #3,109 | 33.0 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,182 | 31.1 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,171 | 31.1 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,757 | 37.1 |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,017 | 32.2 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,972 | 32.3 |
| 2017 | 68 | #2,581 | 39.4 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,624 | 37.8 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #3,190 | 29.1 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,749 | 35.3 |
| 2013 | 85 | #2,194 | 48.4 |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,244 | 47.7 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,702 | 37.0 |
| 2010 | 81 | #2,348 | 45.6 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,426 | 26.1 |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,088 | 29.1 |
| 2007 | 53 | #3,222 | 27.6 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,578 | 23.1 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,376 | 24.4 |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,188 | 26.1 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,129 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,669 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,878 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,538 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,636 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,871 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,418 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,846 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,232 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,236 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,537 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,967 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ellee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ellee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ellee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ellee, and how old are they?
1,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,449 Americans ever recorded as Ellee. The median Ellee alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,118 people named Ellee (1,108 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,143 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 31 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 654 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 752 |
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).
How common is the spelling Ellee?
Ellee is a less common spelling of Ellie: SSA has recorded 1,449 Ellee and 106,857 Ellie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 489,967 babies since 1880, Ellee is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 13,010 babies (<1%), again the seventh most given.
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 Ellee
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 Ellee and names like it
- Compare Ellee and EllieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEllee peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ellee since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Ellee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ellee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.