Ely

girls:

571 births since 1918

#5145 (10th percentile)

boys:

4.4k births since 1880

#1832 (60th percentile)

overall:

5k births since 1880

#3879 (50th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ely".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
571
Peak Births
30
Peak Year
2022
First Recorded
1918
Peak Percentile
2.6%
Current Percentile
2.4%
Peak Rank
#590
Current Rank
#924
Female statistics
Total Births
4,382
Peak Births
159
Peak Year
2009
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
17.1%
Current Percentile
4.5%
Peak Rank
#183
Current Rank
#870
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Ely

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ely. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 36.7% confident that Ely is pronounced as EE-lee. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-lai, at 36.7% confidence.

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EE-lai (2 syllables)
Verified
36.7% confidence
IY1 L AY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Ely. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Ely, please vote using the thumbs up button.

EH-lai (2 syllables)
5 names 148.4k births
EH1 L AY0

About Pronunciation Data

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 IY1 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.