Ellis — #273 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ellis

The Social Security Administration has registered 48,988 babies named Ellis between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ellis currently holds the #273 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 1,250 babies received it in a single year. Ellis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6,913 additional births since 1883.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ellis performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 7,098 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Ellis shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,107 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Ellis in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ellis 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 48,988 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.