girls:
93.1k births since 1880
#391 (93rd percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1883
#3430 (25th percentile)
overall:
94.3k births since 1880
#713 (91st percentile)
The name Ellie is the #713 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 94,291 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 90.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #391 (93.2% percentile) for all time with 93,116 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,430 (25.2% percentile) for all time with 1,175 births since 1883.
Ellie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1883 for boys).
The name Ellie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ellie reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 97.4% percentile (ranked #26) with 3,402 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 3,402 births per million (ranked 97.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1986, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ellie is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #26 (97.4% percentile) with 3,402 births per million.
For boys, Ellie reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 4.6% percentile (ranked #480) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 110 births per million (ranked 3.5% percentile). Despite a low point around 2019, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Ellie ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 2.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ellie".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Eli. View all variations of Eli.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Ellie", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 32 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Eli" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Eli..
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Ellie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Ellie is pronounced as EH-lee, which has 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Ellie? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Ellie. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Ellie, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 L IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker