Elleen
Elleen was last recorded in 2020, when 6 babies were given it; 306 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elleen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,925, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1920, the peak
Elleen peaked in 1920, when 11 girls were given it, #2,969 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 6 | #13,925 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,234 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,578 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,409 | 3.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,794 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,076 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,601 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,807 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,888 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,852 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5 | #6,841 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,892 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,190 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,609 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,642 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,984 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,375 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,980 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,710 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,897 | 4.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,465 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,971 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,907 | 3.4 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,768 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,467 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,327 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,335 | 6.6 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,431 | 4.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,870 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,672 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,592 | 6.6 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,872 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,638 | 6.7 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,107 | 8.4 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,454 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,469 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,539 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,018 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,486 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,969 | 9.2 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,555 | 7.1 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,439 | 7.4 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,066 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,483 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elleen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elleen, and how old are they?
An estimated 142 Americans named Elleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 60 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 243 people named Elleen (243 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 160 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 472,436 babies since 1880, Elleen is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 717 babies recorded by SSA was a Elleen (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Elleen and names like it
- Compare Elleen and EllenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sElleen peaked in 1920.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elleen since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Elleen.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Elleen alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.