Ellington
Ellington is given to both girls and boys: 59 girls and 25 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,868 among girls’ names and #4,166 among boys’, #3,981 among all names counting both); 1,704 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,670 Americans named Ellington and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ellington by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ellington?
#2,868 among girls’ names, 2025
Ellington fell from #2,218 in 2015 to #2,868 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 47.6 to 36.7 per million.
124 babies in 2016, the peak
Ellington peaked in 2016, when 124 babies were given it (78 girls, #2,392 among girls’ names). The 84 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 68% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,868 | 25 | #4,166 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,532 | 19 | #5,114 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,678 | 33 | #3,490 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,609 | 37 | #3,232 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,651 | 37 | #3,200 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,758 | 30 | #3,595 |
| 2019 | 78 | #2,310 | 29 | #3,739 |
| 2018 | 83 | #2,227 | 33 | #3,391 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,977 | 45 | #2,723 |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,392 | 46 | #2,668 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 85 | #2,218 | 27 | #3,912 |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,148 | 28 | #3,713 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,945 | 20 | #4,670 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,527 | 19 | #4,903 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,253 | 17 | #5,266 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,011 | 20 | #4,727 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,167 | 14 | #6,188 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,879 | 13 | #6,506 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,339 | 14 | #6,004 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,723 | 11 | #7,060 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,053 | 13 | #5,965 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,137 | 8 | #8,356 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,512 | 9 | #7,421 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,473 | 9 | #7,201 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,077 | 12 | #5,775 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 7 | #8,461 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 12 | #5,407 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 8 | #7,038 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 6 | #8,465 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 5 | #9,436 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 5 | #9,272 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 8 | #6,535 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 7 | #7,040 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #8,822 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 8 | #6,000 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,272 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 8 | #4,998 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 6 | #5,342 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 7 | #3,967 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 5 | #4,134 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 5 | #4,223 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #3,718 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,597 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 5 | #3,633 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 5 | #4,373 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 5 | #4,538 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ellington a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,704 Americans recorded as Ellington, 59% are girls and 41% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ellington: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ellington, and how old are they?
1,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,704 Americans ever recorded as Ellington. The median Ellington alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,104 people named Ellington (608 women and girls, 496 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,156 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 49 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 363 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,230 |
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ellington
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 Ellington and names like it
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