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Ellice

Girls' name

Possibly noble + character, through Alice

Ellice has been given to 402 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1988, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Ellice, 2019

1 in 694,000

Ellice over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ellice: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly noble + character, through Alice

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ellice means

Ellice belongs to the name family reached through Ellice → Alice. Its meaning is “noble + character”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Probably a variant spelling of Alice or Elise.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ellice (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Ellice is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alice.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 402 girls were recorded with the name Ellice between 1916 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1988; its best national rank was #3,791 in 1954.

How common is Ellice?

Ellice had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ellice 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ellice. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ellices were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ellice was born before 1982 — so the typical Ellice is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
21.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
361
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 21.1% of all recorded uses (85).

Is Ellice 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
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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 1988 (13)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,791
1954

Spellings of Ellice

Ellice is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 33.9% against Ellice's 0.02%.

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 Ellice is used

Across 1910–2025, Ellice was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,250,640 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Ellice has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ellice around the world

Where Ellice 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
    1996–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • Scotland
    1995–2005
    #509
    in 2005
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1950–1999
    #729
    in 1999

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

Ellice 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
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Best rank ever
#3,791
1954
Peak year
1988
13 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
402
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ellice

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

EllaryEllinaEllanaEllsieElliseEllyseEllorieElloryElleyEllarieElloraEllysonEllasynEllaniElleriElleanaEllaraeEllanieEllerieElloiseEllainaElleighEllaynaEllinor

Sibling names for Ellice

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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