Ellsworth

Where Ellsworth comes from

Ellsworth hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #571 among boys — 11 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1895
    Peak, #295
    37 babies named Ellsworth — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1911
    Ellsworth Vines born
    US tennis player
  4. 1923
    Ellsworth Kelly born
    American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
  5. 1962
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,896.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ellsworth Kelly · American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, 1923–2015
  • Ellsworth Vines · US tennis player, 1911–1994
  • Ellsworth Huntington · American geographer, 1876–1947
  • Ellsworth Raymond Johnson · African-American mobster, 1905–1968
  • Ellsworth Bunker · American diplomat, 1894–1984

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.