Ellice
Ellice was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 402 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ellice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ellice mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ellice is “a female given name.”
Probably a variant spelling of Alice or Elise.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ellice?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,236, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1988, the peak
Ellice peaked in 1988, when 13 girls were given it, #5,990 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #16,236 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,318 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,865 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,579 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,647 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,638 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,786 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,987 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,741 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,265 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 7 | #13,162 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,811 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,448 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,778 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,069 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,300 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,856 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,042 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,145 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,806 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,608 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,251 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,990 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,443 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,278 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,764 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,885 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,291 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,677 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,374 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,398 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,324 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,717 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,484 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,237 | 5.5 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,160 | 5.3 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,078 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,861 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,958 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,222 | 3.2 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,072 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,005 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,748 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,316 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,252 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,161 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,791 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,336 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,898 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,499 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,474 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,908 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,155 | 3.2 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,994 | 5.2 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,120 | 5.6 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,237 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,067 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ellice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ellice has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ellice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ellice, and how old are they?
An estimated 347 Americans named Ellice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 26 and 61. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 418 people named Ellice (411 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 359 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above 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 2,344 babies since 1880, Ellice is the second most given (17% of them).
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 Ellice and names like it
- Compare Ellice and ElyceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sEllice peaked in 1988.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ellice since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Ellice.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ellice alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.