Ellice — girls' name
402 babies named Ellice in U.S. Social Security records since 1916, with the highest year being 1988. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
21% of everyone ever named Ellice was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Ellice in 1988 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ellice
The Social Security Administration has registered 402 babies named Ellice between 1916 and 2019, spanning 104 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ellice currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 13 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ellice performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 85 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Ellice shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ellice in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ellice 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 402 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.
Ellice at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Ellice popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1916
- Peak year (1988)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 104 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
402 total births across 104 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1988 with 13 births in a single year.
Ellice by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 85 births that decade — 21% of Ellice's all-time total
Ellice decade highlights
- Peak decade 85 births
- Runner-up 69 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Ellice's strongest decade
85 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 21% of all-time use.
Ellice by state
Where Ellice concentrates geographically — total births since 1916
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 10 | 2.5% |
10 of 402 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 2.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 2.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1916–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.