Ellie

Where Ellie comes from

Diminutives: Clippings + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ellie
  • Vowel-ended
Ellie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #403 among girls, with 17 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1980
    Ellie Kemper born
    American actress
  3. 1997
    Ellie Bamber born
    British actress and model
  4. 2024
    Peak, #21
    6,317 babies named Ellie, the most in any year.
  5. 2024
    The comeback
    Back to #21 after sinking to #2,477 in 1971.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
  • A diminutive of the female given names Eleanor, Elizabeth, and Elena.
  • A diminutive of the male given names Elliot and Elliott.
Namesakes
  • Ellie Kemper · American actress, born 1980
  • Ellie Bamber · British actress and model, born 1997
  • Ellie Carpenter · Australian soccer player, born 2000
  • Ellie Kendrick · British actress, born 1990
  • Ellie Roebuck · English association football player, born 1999

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.