Ellar

Girls' name

Form of Ealar

Ellar has been given to 511 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Ellar, 1956

1 in 687,000

Ellar over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ellar: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ealar

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ellar means

Ellar is a form of Ealar.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ellar is used in Scottish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ealar.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 511 girls were recorded with the name Ellar between 1880 and 1956. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1922; its best national rank was #765 in 1881.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Ellar?

Ellar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1956, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1956: 1 in 687,000; 6 of 4,122,003 births
Among girls only: 1 in 335,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1956: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 476,194 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ellar 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 1956 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 476,194 children born in 1956 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ellar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ellars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ellar was born before 1917 — so the typical Ellar is around 108 today.

Median birth year: 1917; About 108 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 23.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 17.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 17; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 23.1% of all recorded uses (118).

Is Ellar 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1922 (16)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 54.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #765; 1881

Spellings of Ellar

Ellar is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 30.6% against Ellar's 0.04%.

Ella30.6%351,313
Ellen24.0%275,284
Ellie9.2%105,677
Bella7.3%83,721
Della6.2%70,810
Eula4.1%47,159
Elva2.8%31,697
Elsa2.7%30,710

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 Ellar is used

Across 1910–2025, Ellar was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 748,561 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Kentucky1 in —
2North Carolina1 in —

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. Ellar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ellar by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #765; 1881
Peak year: 1922; 16 that year
First recorded: 1880
Last recorded: 1956
All-time count: 511
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Ellar

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

Elley Ellah Ellana Ellee Ellary Ellise Ellyse Ellia Eller Ellory Ellina Ellin Ellsie Ellora Elleana Ellasyn Ellyson Ellan Ellerie Ellea Elloise Ellaina Elleigh Ellorie

Sibling names for Ellar

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

For a sister

Albertha Bethel Verla Lorine Rubie Tressie Filomena Lavinia

For a brother

Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Cletus Columbus Olen Hoyt

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