Ellington — #3552 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Ellington

The Social Security Administration has registered 945 babies named Ellington between 2001 and 2024, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ellington currently holds the #3552 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 85 babies received it in a single year. Ellington is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 674 additional births since 1921.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ellington performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 555 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Ellington shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 65 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Ellington in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ellington 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 945 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.