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Ellyn

#12,274 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Ellyn has been given to 3,836 babies in the U.S. since 1898. In 2025 it ranked #12,274 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 102 recorded.

Babies named Ellyn, 2025

1 in 474,000

Ellyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ellyn: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ellyn means

Ellyn is a given name.

The naming story behind Ellyn

Wikidata records Ellyn as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q5366232, 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, 3,836 girls were recorded with the name Ellyn between 1898 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 102 in 1991; its best national rank was #993 in 1952.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,512 in 2020 to #12,274 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,171 in 2015 to #12,274 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.

How common is Ellyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,274
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ellyn 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ellyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ellyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ellyn was born before 1964 — so the typical Ellyn is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
19.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,923
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1950s — 19.4% of all recorded uses (744).

Is Ellyn 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
+3,698
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,762
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,103
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.27×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.9%
Peak was 1991 (102)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#993
1952

Spellings of Ellyn

Ellyn is not the most common spelling — Evelyn is, with 31.4% against Ellyn's 0.19%.

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 Ellyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Ellyn was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 68,840 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 20,000
  2. 2New York1 in 33,333
  3. 3Wisconsin1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 100,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

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

Ellyn around the world

Where Ellyn 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
    1996–2021
    #3,961
    in 2021
  • Scotland
    1992–2003
    #667
    in 2003
  • France
    1987–2025
    #5,251
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1984–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Ellyn

People whose public names include Ellyn, 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.

Ellyn in other languages

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

ElynEllinEllina

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

Ellyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,274
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,762
Best rank ever
#993
1952
Peak year
1991
102 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,836
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Ellyn

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

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Names with a curve like Ellyn

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

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Sibling names for Ellyn

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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