Ellison — #1068 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Ellison

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,465 babies named Ellison between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ellison currently holds the #1068 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 329 babies received it in a single year. Ellison is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,865 additional births since 1881.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ellison performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,687 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Ellison shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 524 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by South Carolina and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Ellison in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ellison 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 5,465 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.