Ellery

Where Ellery comes from

The dictionaries list Ellery as a given name — an English surname transferred from the given name, variant of Hilary or Eulalie — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1874
    Ellery Harding Clark born
    American track and field athlete
  2. 1959
    First appearance
    #6,245 among girls, 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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 2000
    Ellery Sprayberry born
    American actress
  5. 2014
    Peak, #1,018
    256 babies named Ellery — more than any year before or since.
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.