Ellin is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Ellin has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Ellin. That means that a girl named Ellin is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ellin.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Ellin. Girls named Ellin have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,406 Ellin ranked higher than ever in 1928. By comparison, there have been 92 years in which the first name Ellin has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Ellin only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ellin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Ellin, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in Massachusetts and New York. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Ellin living in one state or another (if your name is Ellin and you live outside of Massachusetts and New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 81,179 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Ellin. So, if your name is Ellin it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Ellin already makes you special.
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 Ellin 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 Ellin 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 Ellin, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ellin
Ellin
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
L
I
N
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.
E
L
L
I
N
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. Ellin sounds like this:
