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Ellamae

#2,660 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Ellamae has been given to 2,358 babies in the U.S. since 1898. In 2025 it ranked #2,660 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 80 recorded.

Babies named Ellamae, 2025

1 in 51,000

Ellamae over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ellamae: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ellamae means

Ellamae is a given name.

The naming story behind Ellamae

Wikidata records Ellamae as a given name. The entity identifier is Q133872362, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,358 girls were recorded with the name Ellamae between 1898 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 80 in 2021; its best national rank was #874 in 1922.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,349 in 2020 to #2,660 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,721 in 2015 to #2,660 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Ellamae?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,000
65 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,660
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,353 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ellamae sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 35,353 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ellamae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ellamaes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ellamae was born before 1942 — so the typical Ellamae is around 83 today.

Median birth year
1942
About 83 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,078
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 20.1% of all recorded uses (475).

Is Ellamae rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−241
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−311
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,061
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.59×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.3%
Peak was 2021 (80)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#874
1922

Spellings of Ellamae

Ellamae is the most-used spelling, taking 64.7% of the 3,644 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ellamae is used

Across 2016–2025, Ellamae was most concentrated in Colorado — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 69,840 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Colorado1 in 33,333
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 33,333
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  4. 4New York1 in 50,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 50,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Ellamae around the world

Where Ellamae ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,271
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2025
    #387
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2025
    #397
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2006–2025
    #608
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1982–2012
    #563
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Ellamae

People whose public names include Ellamae, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ellamae by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,660
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 311
Best rank ever
#874
1922
Peak year
2021
80 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,358
Count in 2025
65

Names similar to Ellamae

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Ellamae

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ellamae, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ellamae

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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