Ellia
Ellia was given to 73 girls in 2025, #2,445 among girls’ names; 1,773 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,750 Americans named Ellia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ellia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ellia?
#2,445 among girls’ names, 2025
Ellia fell from #2,174 in 2015 to #2,445 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 48.7 to 45.4 per million.
123 babies in 2017, the peak
Ellia peaked in 2017, when 123 girls were given it, #1,725 among girls’ names. The 73 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73 | #2,445 | 45.4 |
| 2024 | 97 | #2,016 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 95 | #2,053 | 59.2 |
| 2022 | 98 | #1,997 | 59.8 |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,192 | 51.8 |
| 2020 | 97 | #1,960 | 60.0 |
| 2019 | 89 | #2,116 | 53.0 |
| 2018 | 120 | #1,720 | 70.5 |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,725 | 71.2 |
| 2016 | 96 | #2,058 | 54.2 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 87 | #2,174 | 48.7 |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,540 | 39.2 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,227 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,877 | 34.1 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,736 | 36.4 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,914 | 33.2 |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,132 | 29.4 |
| 2008 | 66 | #2,755 | 34.9 |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,374 | 41.6 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,018 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,873 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,311 | 17.4 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,279 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,474 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,431 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,367 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,174 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,860 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,252 | 5.2 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,855 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,805 | 2.7 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,856 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,324 | 3.1 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,782 | 4.5 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,634 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ellia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ellia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ellia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ellia, and how old are they?
1,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,773 Americans ever recorded as Ellia. The median Ellia alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,360 people named Ellia (1,317 women and girls, 43 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,233 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Ellia rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 13 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 552 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,170 |
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).
Where are babies named Ellia born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 17 | #1,377 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,716 | 0.7× |
Where Ellia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ellia is most over-represented in California: since 1921 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ellia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Ellia?
Ellia is a less common spelling of Elia: SSA has recorded 1,773 Ellia and 10,159 Elia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 547,190 babies since 1880, Ellia is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 73 of their 13,243 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Ellia
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 Ellia and names like it
- Compare Ellia and EliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEllia peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ellia since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Ellia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ellia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.