Ellamay
#13,694 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ellamay has been given to 202 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #13,694 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Ellamay, 2025
1 in 553,000
Ellamay over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ellamay?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,694
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ellamay sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ellamay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ellamays were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ellamay was born before 1929 — so the typical Ellamay is around 96 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 28.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 43.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 87
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 28.2% of all recorded uses (57).
Is Ellamay 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
- −1,152
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +228
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,533
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.75×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 54.5%
- Peak was 1916 (11)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.4% average annual change
Spellings of Ellamay
Ellamay is not the most common spelling — Bellamy is, with 54.3% against Ellamay's 2.9%.
Ellamay around the world
Where Ellamay 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 & Wales1997–2025#4,201in 2025
- Scotland2011–2020#636in 2020
- Northern Ireland2009–2015#358in 2015
- Ireland2010–2019#871in 2019
- Canada2021–2021#2,638in 2021
- South Australia1992–2004#700in 2004
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.
Ellamay by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ellamay
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ellamay
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.