Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Ellis” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ellis” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Ellis” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Ellis” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Ellis” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Ellis” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Ellis” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ellis” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 58 0.000287864 58 -100%
1881 58 0.000301005 58 -100%
1882 86 0.000388204 86 -100%
1883 80 0.000368755 7 73 -82%
1884 73 0.000299843 73 -100%
1885 78 0.000323848 78 -100%
1886 85 0.000332921 85 -100%
1887 66 0.000266783 66 -100%
1888 77 0.000257117 6 71 -84%
1889 87 0.000301094 7 80 -84%
1890 71 0.000235567 71 -100%
1891 66 0.000230227 66 -100%
1892 94 0.000281122 5 89 -89%
1893 85 0.000261359 6 79 -86%
1894 90 0.00026573 7 83 -84%
1895 100 0.000284884 100 -100%
1896 115 0.000321693 9 106 -84%
1897 98 0.000282456 98 -100%
1898 96 0.000251668 96 -100%
1899 106 0.000312469 8 98 -85%
1900 120 0.000266514 120 -100%
1901 80 0.00023134 6 74 -85%
1902 122 0.000315463 10 112 -84%
1903 116 0.000304302 6 110 -90%
1904 106 0.000262711 106 -100%
1905 103 0.000242969 103 -100%
1906 107 0.000249737 6 101 -89%
1907 127 0.000272889 7 120 -89%
1908 132 0.000270133 9 123 -86%
1909 131 0.000256248 131 -100%
1910 147 0.000248853 147 -100%
1911 174 0.00027007 7 167 -92%
1912 290 0.000293504 8 282 -94%
1913 405 0.000356166 14 391 -93%
1914 439 0.000309953 13 426 -94%
1915 639 0.000348718 21 618 -93%
1916 584 0.0003019 14 570 -95%
1917 591 0.000294506 17 574 -94%
1918 647 0.000298004 23 624 -93%
1919 649 0.000307547 15 634 -95%
1920 660 0.000291694 14 646 -96%
1921 703 0.000301135 21 682 -94%
1922 647 0.000282637 22 625 -93%
1923 677 0.000294031 20 657 -94%
1924 640 0.000268726 13 627 -96%
1925 632 0.000270861 19 613 -94%
1926 619 0.00026961 12 607 -96%
1927 597 0.000257399 18 579 -94%
1928 566 0.000250339 22 544 -92%
1929 561 0.000255912 16 545 -94%
1930 534 0.000240185 11 523 -96%
1931 474 0.000225244 18 456 -92%
1932 449 0.000212666 13 436 -94%
1933 436 0.00021806 10 426 -95%
1934 441 0.000212344 11 430 -95%
1935 447 0.000213886 9 438 -96%
1936 441 0.000212266 13 428 -94%
1937 464 0.000217772 13 451 -94%
1938 490 0.000221462 14 476 -94%
1939 435 0.000197418 17 418 -92%
1940 439 0.000190647 9 430 -96%
1941 455 0.000186749 12 443 -95%
1942 510 0.000186689 18 492 -93%
1943 513 0.00018175 18 495 -93%
1944 464 0.000172486 14 450 -94%
1945 429 0.000161709 12 417 -94%
1946 510 0.000159609 10 500 -96%
1947 519 0.000144074 9 510 -97%
1948 466 0.000134974 16 450 -93%
1949 436 0.000125116 6 430 -97%
1950 483 0.000137868 22 461 -91%
1951 419 0.000113743 15 404 -93%
1952 429 0.000112954 7 422 -97%
1953 462 0.000119887 9 453 -96%
1954 387 0.000097219 7 380 -96%
1955 376 0.000093647 5 371 -97%
1956 426 0.000103322 7 419 -97%
1957 399 0.000094952 12 387 -94%
1958 370 0.000089504 14 356 -92%
1959 325 0.000078163 8 317 -95%
1960 372 0.000089556 14 358 -92%
1961 337 0.000081356 9 328 -95%
1962 281 0.000069634 5 276 -96%
1963 267 0.000067455 267 -100%
1964 291 0.000074853 5 286 -97%
1965 237 0.000065371 7 230 -94%
1966 233 0.000067038 6 227 -95%
1967 221 0.000065098 5 216 -95%
1968 209 0.000061863 6 203 -94%
1969 210 0.000060426 5 205 -95%
1970 191 0.00005296 5 186 -95%
1971 210 0.000061182 6 204 -94%
1972 158 0.000050271 5 153 -94%
1973 183 0.000060659 183 -100%
1974 171 0.00005625 171 -100%
1975 137 0.000045373 137 -100%
1976 175 0.000057674 175 -100%
1977 154 0.000048481 154 -100%
1978 144 0.00004537 8 136 -89%
1979 173 0.000051999 5 168 -94%
1980 172 0.000049935 172 -100%
1981 166 0.000047986 9 157 -89%
1982 128 0.000036488 5 123 -92%
1983 139 0.000040135 139 -100%
1984 134 0.000038409 134 -100%
1985 156 0.000043708 8 148 -90%
1986 174 0.000048917 13 161 -85%
1987 173 0.000047981 11 162 -87%
1988 161 0.000043572 15 146 -81%
1989 183 0.000047601 11 172 -88%
1990 194 0.000049083 13 181 -87%
1991 201 0.000051601 12 189 -88%
1992 209 0.000054409 23 186 -78%
1993 201 0.000053312 34 167 -66%
1994 181 0.000048687 21 160 -77%
1995 204 0.000055705 38 166 -63%
1996 217 0.000059498 30 187 -72%
1997 234 0.000064538 38 196 -68%
1998 230 0.00006253 46 184 -60%
1999 212 0.000057392 32 180 -70%
2000 243 0.000064287 34 209 -72%
2001 217 0.000057969 50 167 -54%
2002 217 0.000058048 40 177 -63%
2003 265 0.000069694 54 211 -59%
2004 259 0.000067785 47 212 -64%
2005 331 0.000086089 85 246 -49%
2006 367 0.000092766 100 267 -46%
2007 373 0.000093304 111 262 -40%
2008 386 0.000098202 110 276 -43%
2009 452 0.000118319 124 328 -45%
2010 465 0.000125821 151 314 -35%
2011 499 0.000136421 186 313 -25%
2012 619 0.000169247 216 403 -30%
2013 728 0.000199689 227 501 -38%
2014 918 0.000247681 238 680 -48%
2015 1022 0.000276148 282 740 -45%
2016 1336 0.000364162 337 999 -50%
2017 1489 0.000416364 380 1109 -49%
2018 1415 0.000402458 352 1063 -50%
2019 1374 0.000395859 398 976 -42%
2020 1482 0.000443636 472 1010 -36%
2021 1538 0.000453962 501 1037 -35%
2022 1516 0.000448105 422 1094 -44%
2023 1605 0.000484719 375 1230 -53%
2024 1654 0.00049692 404 1250 -51%

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