Ellis
Ellis stands at #243 nationally in 2025, and gathering speed. Its high-water mark came in 1899, which makes it a grandparent-generation name enjoying its afterlife.
What Ellis carries
Ellis’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Ellis, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Ellis since 1880
Ellis peaked in 1899 at #155; #243 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Ellis is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Ellis runs strongest in Maine at 0.26% in 2025, then District of Columbia and North Dakota.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Ellis
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Edward
#224 in 2025 · Teutonic
Eva
#134 in 2025 · Hebrew
Elsie
#123 in 2025 · Teutonic
Esther
#119 in 2025 · Persian
Walter
#252 in 2025 · Teutonic
Simon
#230 in 2025 · Hebrew
Oscar
#223 in 2025 · Celtic
Mabel
#201 in 2025 · Latin
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About Ellis
How common is Ellis today?
Ellis stands at #243 nationally in 2025, and gathering speed. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1880.
What does Ellis mean?
The reference we cite records “the Lord” (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Ellis?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Edward sits closest, with Eva and Elsie just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
Get Ellis’s free Name Kit
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