girls:
2.2k births since 1898
#3658 (36th percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1898
#5577 (28th percentile)
The name Ellamae is the #5,577 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,217 recorded births since 1898. This represents the 27.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,658 (36.0% percentile) for all time with 2,217 births since 1898.
Ellamae first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1898 (first recorded for girls in 1898). Birth data for Ellamae is available in 86 out of the 126 years between 1898 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Ellamae reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 10.9% percentile (ranked #532) with 56 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 56 births per million (ranked 10.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2001, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ellamae ranks #890 for girls (6.0% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 63.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ellamae".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ellamae. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.3% confident that Ellamae is pronounced as EH-luh-MAY, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-luh-may, at 28.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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