Ellery — #1328 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Ellery

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,556 babies named Ellery between 1959 and 2024, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ellery currently holds the #1328 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 256 babies received it in a single year. Ellery is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,252 additional births since 1882.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ellery performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,073 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Ellery shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 428 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Michigan and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Ellery in 31 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ellery in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,556 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.