Ellery

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Ellery, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Bellamy
• Hollis
• Delaney
• Arden
• Avery
• Hadley
• Halston
• Fallon
• Ainsley
• Darcy
• Landry
• Cassidy

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Ellery is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, An English surname transferred from the given name, variant of Hilary or Eulalie.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• El que vive en la isla de los sauces

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• William Ellery Channingb. 1780USAmerican Unitarian clergyman (1780–1842)
• William Ellery Channingb. 1818USAmerican writer and poet (1818–1901)
• Ellery Albee Hibbardb. 1826USAmerican politician (1826-1903)
• George Ellery Haleb. 1868USAmerican astronomer (1868-1938)
• Ellery Sedgwickb. 1872USAmerican writer and publisher (1872-1960)
• Ellery Clarkb. 1874USAmerican track and field athlete (1874–1949)
• Ellery Hanleyb. 1961GBEnglish rugby league footballer and coach
• Ellery Cairob. 1978NLDutch association football player
• Ellery Hollingsworthb. 1991USAmerican snowboarder
• Ellery Sprayberryb. 2000USAmerican actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Is Ellery a male or female name?

Ellery is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.

What does the name Ellery mean, and where does it come from?

Old English/Cornish; from the elder tree Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….

How do you pronounce Ellery?

A machine transcription gives /əlɹi/ (IPA) for English.

How common is the name Ellery?

In the United States, the national register counted 4,933 people named Ellery in 2020, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.

In which country does Ellery have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Ellery, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ellery.

Where is Ellery most common?

Ellery is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 67 thousand people carrying it.