Ellsworth

Where Ellsworth comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Ellsworth.

Ellsworth through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #571 among boys, with 11 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1895
    Peak, #295
    37 babies named Ellsworth, its best rank.
  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

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.