Ellyn
Ellyn was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,274 among girls’ names; 3,836 Americans have been recorded with it since 1898 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,000 Americans named Ellyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 33 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ellyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ellyn?
#12,274 among girls’ names, 2025
Ellyn fell from #5,171 in 2015 to #12,274 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.6 to 4.4 per million.
102 babies in 1991, the peak
Ellyn peaked in 1991, when 102 girls were given it, #1,518 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,274 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,972 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,755 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,897 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,148 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,512 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,124 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,600 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,892 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,331 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (115)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,171 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,126 | 20.2 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,876 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,870 | 16.5 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,533 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,454 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,144 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,201 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,993 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,593 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,919 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,190 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,750 | 20.3 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,095 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,408 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,578 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,482 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,427 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,039 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,635 | 26.8 |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,394 | 30.7 |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,212 | 33.6 |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,901 | 40.9 |
| 1992 | 94 | #1,619 | 51.0 |
| 1991 | 102 | #1,518 | 54.4 |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,812 | 41.6 |
| 1989 | 75 | #1,787 | 40.7 |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,840 | 37.6 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,272 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,790 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,544 | 13.9 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,207 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,459 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,656 | 20.7 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,767 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,243 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,469 | 14.3 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,582 | 21.5 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,018 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,032 | 16.4 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,762 | 18.5 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,346 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,521 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,834 | 15.8 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,750 | 15.6 |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,664 | 15.4 |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,174 | 20.2 |
| 1968 | 36 | #2,005 | 21.9 |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,180 | 18.2 |
| 1966 | 50 | #1,591 | 29.5 |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,701 | 24.9 |
| 1964 | 55 | #1,539 | 29.0 |
| 1963 | 45 | #1,722 | 23.3 |
| 1962 | 54 | #1,529 | 27.5 |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,441 | 29.7 |
| 1960 | 82 | #1,200 | 40.6 |
| 1959 | 68 | #1,301 | 33.6 |
| 1958 | 69 | #1,277 | 34.3 |
| 1957 | 67 | #1,292 | 32.8 |
| 1956 | 74 | #1,212 | 36.9 |
| 1955 | 73 | #1,167 | 37.3 |
| 1954 | 75 | #1,141 | 38.6 |
| 1953 | 76 | #1,115 | 40.4 |
| 1952 | 90 | #993 | 48.5 |
| 1951 | 75 | #1,069 | 41.6 |
| 1950 | 77 | #1,042 | 44.9 |
| 1949 | 75 | #1,031 | 43.8 |
| 1948 | 65 | #1,105 | 38.3 |
| 1947 | 75 | #1,023 | 42.3 |
| 1946 | 61 | #1,089 | 38.8 |
| 1945 | 43 | #1,217 | 32.9 |
| 1944 | 43 | #1,208 | 32.4 |
| 1943 | 47 | #1,181 | 33.7 |
| 1942 | 42 | #1,232 | 31.1 |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,393 | 25.7 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,649 | 20.1 |
| 1939 | 33 | #1,297 | 30.1 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,663 | 19.9 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,804 | 17.9 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,070 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,128 | 14.3 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,942 | 16.3 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,923 | 16.9 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,895 | 16.9 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,625 | 10.3 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,341 | 12.4 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,844 | 17.9 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,254 | 7.8 |
| 1927 | 19 | #2,046 | 15.9 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,927 | 9.3 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,654 | 10.7 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,338 | 12.8 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,019 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,673 | 10.5 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,408 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,061 | 8.8 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,982 | 16.4 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,605 | 11.1 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,408 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,989 | 16.3 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,159 | 14.4 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,025 | 16.7 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,202 | 15.0 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,484 | 26.7 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,565 | 23.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ellyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ellyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 115 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ellyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ellyn, and how old are they?
3,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 3,836 Americans ever recorded as Ellyn. The median Ellyn alive today is 50 years old; half are between 33 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 3,358 people named Ellyn (3,348 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,139 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 163 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,010 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 432 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 802 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 368 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 219 |
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).
Where are babies named Ellyn born?
The states with the most babies named Ellyn are Illinois, New York and California, with 70% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 403 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| New York | 393 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 114 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Wisconsin | 100 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 88 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 53 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 46 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 42 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 19 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Ellyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ellyn is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1910 it was given 2.1 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 girls’ 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 Ellyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 287,768 babies since 1880, Ellyn is the third most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 333 babies (2.1%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Ellyn
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 Ellyn and names like it
- Compare Ellyn and EllenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sEllyn peaked in 1991.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ellyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Ellyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ellyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.