Ellwood
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ellwood has been given to 1,979 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 82 recorded.
Babies named Ellwood, 2021
1 in 484,000
Ellwood 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ellwood?
Ellwood had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 484,000
- 7 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 250,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 335,678 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ellwood sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 335,678 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ellwood. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ellwoods were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ellwood was born before 1925 — so the typical Ellwood is around 100 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 30.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 0.86%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 225
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (612).
Is Ellwood 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1918 (82)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.8% average annual change
Spellings of Ellwood
Ellwood is not the most common spelling — Elwood is, with 91.3% against Ellwood's 8.7%.
- Elwood91.3%20,786
- Ellwood8.7%1,979
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 Ellwood is used
Across 1910–2025, Ellwood was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 94,386 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Maryland1 in 20,000
- 2Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4Michigan1 in —
- 5Minnesota1 in —
- 6Missouri1 in —
- 7New Jersey1 in —
- 8New York1 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. Ellwood has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ellwood by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ellwood
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ellwood
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.