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Ellery

#1,208 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Cheerful, happy, through Hilary

Ellery has been given to 7,005 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #1,208 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 256 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% girls, 32% boys all-time.

Babies named Ellery, 2025

1 in 17,600

Ellery over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Ellery over time

In 2025, Ellery went to 96% girls and 4% boys.

18822025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Ellery: meaning, origin, and history

Cheerful, happy, through Hilary

surname transfer

What Ellery means

Ellery belongs to the name family reached through Ellery → Hilary. Its meaning is “cheerful, happy”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ellery is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Ellery is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hilary.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,744 girls were recorded with the name Ellery between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 256 in 2014; its best national rank was #1,020 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,146 in 2020 to #1,208 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,041 in 2015 to #1,208 in 2025.

In the United States, 2,261 boys were recorded with the name Ellery between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 1959; its best national rank was #744 in 1897.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,253 in 2020 to #9,145 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,074 in 2015 to #9,145 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ellery?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,600
188 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,550
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,208
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,224 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ellery 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,224 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ellery. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ellerys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ellery was born before 2014 — so the typical Ellery is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,744
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 43.7% of all recorded uses (2,073).

Is Ellery 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
+124
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−62
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−167
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.4%
Peak was 2014 (256)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,020
2014

Spellings of Ellery

Ellery is not the most common spelling — Ellen is, with 65.4% against Ellery's 1.1%.

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 Ellery is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Ellery was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 2,326 girls, against 1 in 8,992 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in 50,000).

243 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 2,326
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 2,632
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 3,125
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 5,263
  5. 5Colorado1 in 5,882
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 5,882
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 5,882
  8. 8Indiana1 in 6,667

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.

Where Ellery is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Ellery was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 708,132 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Ellery has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ellery around the world

Where Ellery 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
    2013–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #1,469
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Ellery

People whose public names include Ellery, 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.

Ellery by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,208
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 62
Best rank ever
#1,020
2014
Peak year
2014
256 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,744
Count in 2025
188

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,145
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 892
Best rank ever
#744
1897
Peak year
1959
65 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,261
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Ellery

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

ElliotEllenaEllisonEllynEllisElliottEllamaeEllyElloraElloryElliaElliannaEllyseElliseValeryEllyanaElleeElliEllanaEllahEllowynEllisynEllietteEllary

Names with a curve like Ellery

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

KaleahLeelaDalilahRayleeMaiteViviannaKeilyAilynEllisonMayleeLeilahCarsyn

Sibling names for Ellery

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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