Ellin
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ellin has been given to 579 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1948, with 35 recorded.
Babies named Ellin, 2023
1 in 663,000
Ellin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ellin?
Ellin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,528 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ellin sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ellin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ellins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ellin was born before 1944 — so the typical Ellin is around 81 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 30.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 7.8%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 179
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (175).
Is Ellin 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1948 (35)
- Years since peak
- 77
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.6% average annual change
Spellings of Ellin
Ellin is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 16.6% against Ellin's 0.03%.
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 Ellin is used
Across 1910–2025, Ellin was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 104,945 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 100,000
- 2Massachusetts1 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. Ellin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ellin around the world
Where Ellin 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 & Wales2004–2016#4,096in 2016
- South Australia1987–1995#712in 1995
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ellin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ellin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ellin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.