girls:
6.5k births since 1883
#2042 (64th percentile)
boys:
47.7k births since 1880
#517 (89th percentile)
overall:
54.2k births since 1880
#1025 (87th percentile)
The name Ellis is the #1,025 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 54,234 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 86.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #517 (88.7% percentile) for all time with 47,731 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,042 (64.3% percentile) for all time with 6,503 births since 1883.
Ellis has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1883 for girls).
The name Ellis has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 76.8% of babies named Ellis were boys.
For boys, Ellis reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 71.0% percentile (ranked #265) with 671 births per million. The name was most common in 1899, with 851 births per million (ranked 40.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2002, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ellis ranks #265 for boys (71.0% percentile) with 671 births per million, which is 78.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ellis reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 46.5% percentile (ranked #501) with 280 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 280 births per million (ranked 46.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1978, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ellis ranks #603 for girls (36.4% percentile) with 212 births per million, which is 75.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ellis".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Ellis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.8% confident that Ellis is pronounced as EH-lihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-lees, at 14.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 L IH0 S) 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.
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