Ellwood
Ellwood was last recorded in 2021, when 7 babies were given it; 1,979 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ellwood by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ellwood?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,024, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
82 babies in 1918, the peak
Ellwood peaked in 1918, when 82 boys were given it, #694 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 7 | #10,024 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,710 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,841 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,514 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,307 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,194 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,925 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,091 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,674 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,643 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 9 | #2,916 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,423 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,907 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,739 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 18 | #1,913 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 14 | #2,215 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 13 | #2,306 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,469 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,064 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,124 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,880 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,855 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,051 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 15 | #1,968 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 23 | #1,528 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,495 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 34 | #1,200 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,952 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 39 | #1,059 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,787 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 31 | #1,255 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,022 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,489 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,408 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,494 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 28 | #1,272 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,477 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,400 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,278 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 32 | #1,167 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 38 | #1,096 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 27 | #1,341 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 39 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 49 | #965 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 43 | #1,061 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 63 | #851 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 59 | #873 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 52 | #934 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 77 | #765 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 67 | #822 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 60 | #894 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 62 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 80 | #724 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 67 | #792 | 0.07 |
| 1918 | 82 | #694 | 0.08 |
| 1917 | 69 | #752 | 0.07 |
| 1916 | 73 | #695 | 0.08 |
| 1915 | 55 | #826 | 0.06 |
| 1914 | 41 | #840 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 34 | #822 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 34 | #740 | 0.08 |
| 1911 | 14 | #903 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 13 | #885 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,187 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 13 | #755 | 0.08 |
| 1907 | 13 | #752 | 0.09 |
| 1906 | 11 | #773 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 10 | #775 | 0.08 |
| 1903 | 7 | #938 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 12 | #612 | 0.11 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,370 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 11 | #673 | 0.09 |
| 1897 | 10 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 7 | #923 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 9 | #752 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,119 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,048 | 0.05 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,076 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 6 | #849 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 7 | #797 | 0.06 |
| 1882 | 5 | #978 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ellwood a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ellwood has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ellwood: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ellwood, and how old are they?
An estimated 300 Americans named Ellwood and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (15% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 66 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 438 people named Ellwood (7 women and girls, 431 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 410 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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).
Where are babies named Ellwood born?
The states with the most babies named Ellwood are Pennsylvania, Maryland and New York, with 90% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Maryland is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 478 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Maryland | 137 | not ranked | 5.1× |
| New York | 26 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Wisconsin | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Ellwood is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ellwood is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1910 it was given 5.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ellwood with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Ellwood?
Ellwood is a less common spelling of Elwood: SSA has recorded 1,979 Ellwood and 20,839 Elwood since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 22,818 babies since 1880, Ellwood is the second most given (8.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 81 babies recorded by SSA was a Ellwood (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ellwood
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 Ellwood and names like it
- Compare Ellwood and ElwoodBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sEllwood peaked in 1918.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ellwood since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Ellwood.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ellwood alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.