Ellie is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The first name Ellie is one of the top 100 most popular girls names in the US – currently at #39 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Ellie, accounting for approximately 0.30 % of all newborn girls. In the entire USA, approximately 82,390 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Ellie. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
The name Ellie can be shortened to many different names, which means that it can have many different meanings. It is considered particularly likely that the name originated from the first name Elizabeth. According to this the name carries the meaning ‘My God is abudance’. According to another explanation, it can be a variant of Elena, which in turn is a variant of Helena and therefore means ‘the radiant’ or ‘the sunny’.
Ellie Goulding (*1986)
The English singer and multiple award winner also supports charitable causes in many ways: In 2017, she received a Global Leadership Award from the United Nations Foundation for her environmental and social justice activism.
Ellie Bamber (*1997)
Nowadays especially known for her main role in the TV series 'Willow', Ellie Bamber started her career on the big screens in the film 'The Falling', also starring Maisie Williams.
Ellie Kemper (*1980)
The full name of the American actress and comedian is Elizabeth Claire Kemper, but is better known by her nick- and stage name. She was the star of the comedy series 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt' (2015-2019) and received much praise for her role in the hit comedy series 'The Office' (2005-2013).
If we dig really deep into our statistics, we find that there are very few girls' names that have been consistently popular for so long that they have been given to newborns in every single year since the beginning of our records in 1880. In fact, there are only 432 girls' names that appear in our statistics in every single year, and Ellie is one of those very special classics. At the same time, Ellie has never been more popular than it is in this century - in 2020, the name even made it to rank #28 of the most popular girls' names, easily landing in the top 100 of our SmartGenius first name statistics.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ellie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
...because: In 2022, 5,761 girls were born and given the name Ellie by their parents. That puts Ellie at #32 on our list of most popular girls' names. It was much less popular in 1971 - only 30 parents chose this name for their newborn daughter and it ranked 2,288 on the popularity scale of all girls' names.
The name Ellie may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Ellie is apparently especially popular in Utah. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 450 women in Utah is called Ellie. In total, that’s 2,594 women who feel addressed when the name Ellie is shouted loudly across Utah and who ensure that their name makes it to #108 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Ellie as the answer a total of 82,212 times. This places Ellie at #380 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Ellie as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Ellie is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.
If your name is Ellie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ellie, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ellie
Ellie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ellie sounds like this:
