Ellery

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Old English/Cornish; from the elder tree

Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025

/eʎeˈɾi/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Ellery is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • USUnited States1 in 67K(measured from records)
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 150Kfew records
  • GYGuyana1 in 150K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

4,933 people, 2020

Record sources
300 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 67K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Old English/Cornish; from the elder tree

Cited for this meaning 1

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Often considered alongside

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

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.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Ellery counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ellery is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4,9331 in 67K3.6KEllery300
PH Philippines≈630 est.≈1 in 184K—Ellery30
GB United Kingdom≈350 est.≈1 in 201KlistedEllery127
CA Canada≈210 est.≈1 in 199K4Ellery67
VE Venezuela≈190 est.≈1 in 148K—Ellery11
AU Australia≈160 est.≈1 in 171K1Ellery104
SG Singapore≈44 est.≈1 in 138K—Ellery12
GY Guyana51 in 150K5—2

4,933 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

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 wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • El que vive en la isla de los sauces

    as a name25,000 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1700180019002000William Ellery Channing, b. 1780William Ellery Channing, b. 1818Ellery Albee Hibbard, b. 1826George Ellery Hale, b. 1868Ellery Sedgwick, b. 1872Ellery Clark, b. 1874Ellery Hanley, b. 1961Ellery Cairo, b. 1978Ellery Hollingsworth, b. 1991Ellery Sprayberry, b. 2000

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).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalHi Ellery,

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

43 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Ellery
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.6K#3,954
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.4K#3,954
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025188—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)202317—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)201617—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)202416—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)201416—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)201314—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)201214—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)201713—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)200612—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20258—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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

Frequently asked questions

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?
In Spanish /eʎeˈɾi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
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.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ellery”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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