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Ellsworth

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Ellsworth has been given to 7,337 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 1918, with 300 recorded.

Babies named Ellsworth, 2024

1 in 669,000

Ellsworth over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ellsworth: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ellsworth means

Ellsworth is a given name.

The naming story behind Ellsworth

Wikidata records Ellsworth as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q23309258, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,337 boys were recorded with the name Ellsworth between 1880 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 300 in 1918; its best national rank was #296 in 1895.

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.

How common is Ellsworth?

Ellsworth had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ellsworth sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ellsworth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ellsworths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ellsworth was born before 1924 — so the typical Ellsworth is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.79%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
853
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1920s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (2,115).

Is Ellsworth 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 1918 (300)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#296
1895

Spellings of Ellsworth

Ellsworth is the most-used spelling, taking 89.8% of the 8,166 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Ellsworth is used

Across 1910–2025, Ellsworth was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 32,360 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 7,692
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 9,091
  3. 3Wisconsin1 in 11,111
  4. 4North Dakota1 in 12,500
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 14,286
  6. 6District of Columbia1 in 20,000
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 20,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 20,000

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

Notable people named Ellsworth

People whose public names include Ellsworth, 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.

Ellsworth in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Ellsworth. Linked forms have their own page here.

Elsworth

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Ellsworth by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#296
1895
Peak year
1918
300 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
7,337
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ellsworth

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

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Names with a curve like Ellsworth

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

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Sibling names for Ellsworth

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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