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How popular is “Elly” in the USA?

Number of people named “Elly” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Elly” 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 “Elly” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Elly” by birth year

This chart shows how “Elly” 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
1921 9 0.000003855 9 100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 100%
1925 10 0.000004286 10 100%
1926 9 0.00000392 9 100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 100%
1928 10 0.000004423 10 100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 100%
1931 8 0.000003802 8 100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 100%
1951 11 0.000002986 11 100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 100%
1953 10 0.000002595 10 100%
1954 9 0.000002261 9 100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 100%
1957 8 0.000001904 8 100%
1958 12 0.000002903 12 100%
1959 12 0.000002886 12 100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 100%
1961 18 0.000004345 18 100%
1962 12 0.000002974 12 100%
1963 16 0.000004042 16 100%
1964 19 0.000004887 19 100%
1965 17 0.000004689 17 100%
1966 12 0.000003453 12 100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 100%
1968 16 0.000004736 16 100%
1969 16 0.000004604 16 100%
1970 16 0.000004436 16 100%
1971 18 0.000005244 18 100%
1972 10 0.000003182 10 100%
1973 11 0.000003646 11 100%
1974 22 0.000007237 22 100%
1975 21 0.000006955 21 100%
1976 25 0.000008239 25 100%
1977 24 0.000007555 19 5 58%
1978 20 0.000006301 20 100%
1979 30 0.000009017 30 100%
1980 33 0.00000958 33 100%
1981 29 0.000008383 29 100%
1982 23 0.000006557 23 100%
1983 12 0.000003465 12 100%
1984 16 0.000004586 16 100%
1985 20 0.000005604 20 100%
1986 25 0.000007028 25 100%
1987 19 0.00000527 19 100%
1988 18 0.000004871 18 100%
1989 36 0.000009364 36 100%
1990 28 0.000007084 28 100%
1991 29 0.000007445 29 100%
1992 32 0.000008331 32 100%
1993 39 0.000010344 39 100%
1994 31 0.000008339 31 100%
1995 29 0.000007919 29 100%
1996 36 0.000009871 36 100%
1997 37 0.000010205 37 100%
1998 33 0.000008972 33 100%
1999 86 0.000023282 86 100%
2000 62 0.000016403 62 100%
2001 76 0.000020302 76 100%
2002 101 0.000027018 101 100%
2003 100 0.0000263 100 100%
2004 122 0.000031929 122 100%
2005 114 0.00002965 114 100%
2006 130 0.00003286 130 100%
2007 133 0.000033269 133 100%
2008 122 0.000031038 122 100%
2009 143 0.000037433 138 5 93%
2010 191 0.000051681 191 100%
2011 157 0.000042922 157 100%
2012 168 0.000045935 168 100%
2013 176 0.000048276 176 100%
2014 174 0.000046946 174 100%
2015 154 0.000041611 154 100%
2016 167 0.00004552 167 100%
2017 146 0.000040826 146 100%
2018 135 0.000038397 135 100%
2019 139 0.000040047 139 100%
2020 140 0.000041909 140 100%
2021 117 0.000034534 117 100%
2022 136 0.000040199 136 100%
2023 113 0.000034127 113 100%
2024 117 0.000035151 117 100%

Explore other names

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  1. Ellsa
  2. Ellsie
  3. Ellsworth
  4. Ellwood
  5. Ellwyn
  6. Elly (this page)
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  8. Ellyana
  9. Ellyanah
  10. Ellyanna
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