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How popular is the name Ellis?
Births per year, rank history and how many Ellises are alive today.
Ellis (male) is currently the 95th most popular boys' name in England and Wales, with 571 babies given the name in 2024. This spelling of the name peaked in 2006, when 876 babies were given the name, the 77th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2016, with 783 babies given the name that year. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 19,000 babies have been named Ellis in England and Wales since 1996. Ellis is one spelling of a name also recorded as Elis; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Ellis you are most likely to meet is around 8 years old. Half of all Ellises born in England and Wales are between 9 and 25, and there are at least 24,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 7.6% chance that at least one of them will be called Ellis.
How many babies are named Ellis each year?
Includes all spellings: Ellis, Elis. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Ellis spelling rank?
Where does the Elis spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Ellis most popular?
Ellis peaked in 2019, when 945 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Ellis?
At least 24,000 people named Ellis in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Ellis?
Most living Ellises are between 9 and 25; the most common age is about 8.
Is Ellis becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.