Ellyn is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Ellyn in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Ellyn in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Ellyn by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Ellyn ranks at #5,386. That means there are 5,385 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ellyn.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Ellyn are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Ellyn is registered in 12 states, among which are California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan or Minnesota. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Ellyn live in Illinois, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 18,781 would turn around if you called the name Ellyn across Illinois.
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 Ellyn 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 Ellyn 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 Ellyn, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Yoyo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ellyn
Ellyn
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
L
Y
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
Y
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. Ellyn sounds like this:
