boys:
7.3k births since 1880
#1382 (70th percentile)
overall:
7.3k births since 1880
#3150 (59th percentile)
The name Ellsworth is the #3,150 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,332 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 59.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 59.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,382 (69.9% percentile) for all time with 7,332 births since 1880.
Ellsworth has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Ellsworth is available in 117 out of the 141 years between 1880 and 2020. 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 boys, Ellsworth reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 44.3% percentile (ranked #296) with 286 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 320 births per million (ranked 40.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ellsworth".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ellsworth. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.3% confident that Ellsworth is pronounced as EHLZ-werth, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EHL-swerth, at 35.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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