Ellyson
Ellyson was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,230 among girls’ names; 490 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ellyson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ellyson?
#7,230 among girls’ names, 2025
Ellyson fell from #5,522 in 2015 to #7,230 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 9.3 per million.
40 babies in 2011, the peak
Ellyson peaked in 2011, when 40 girls were given it, #3,797 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,230 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,102 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,549 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,065 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,738 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,666 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,687 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,839 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,557 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,897 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,522 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,354 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,363 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,152 | 20.4 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,797 | 22.7 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,838 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,383 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,405 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,169 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,198 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,021 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,139 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,882 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,711 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,490 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,422 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ellyson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ellyson has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ellyson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ellyson, and how old are they?
An estimated 486 Americans named Ellyson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 438 people named Ellyson (413 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 412 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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).
How common is the spelling Ellyson?
Ellyson is a less common spelling of Ellison: SSA has recorded 490 Ellyson and 8,658 Ellison since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 10,799 babies since 1880, Ellyson is the fourth most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 388 babies (3.9%), the third 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 Ellyson
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 Ellyson and names like it
- Compare Ellyson and EllisonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEllyson peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ellyson since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Ellyson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ellyson alive today were born 2013-2025.
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