Ellery

Where Ellery comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Ellery.

  • Vowel-ended
Ellery through the years
  1. 1874
    Ellery Harding Clark born
    American track and field athlete
  2. 1959
    First appearance
    #6,245 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1988
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  4. 2000
    Ellery Sprayberry born
    American actress
  5. 2014
    Peak, #1,018
    256 babies named Ellery, the most in any year.
In the dictionary
  • An English surname transferred from the given name, variant of Hilary or Eulalie.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Ellery Harding Clark · American track and field athlete, 1874–1949
  • Ellery Sprayberry · American actress, born 2000
  • Ellery Cairo · Dutch association football player, born 1978
  • Ellery Sedgwick · American writer and publisher, 1872–1960
  • Ellery Schempp · American physicist, born 1940

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.