Ellie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Ellie (Elly) är ursprungligen en engelsk smekform till namn som → Eleonora, → Elisabeth, → Ellen
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ellie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 2K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 4K
- USUnited States1 in 2.7Kas Eli
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ellie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 475 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
122,713 named Eli, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Elly in BR Brazil, NO Norway, NL Netherlands and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ellie (Elly) är ursprungligen en engelsk smekform till namn som → Eleonora, → Elisabeth, → Ellen. Formen Ellie dominerar i dagens namngivning. Det har varit ett av de mest populära namnen för flickor det senaste decenniet. I den animerade filmserien Ice Age (2002–22) bär en av huvudfigurerna namnet Ellie, något som kan ha inspirerat till namngivning. Se även → Elli.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Ellie, 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)
Ellie 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 122,713as Eli | 1 in 2.7K | 121K | Ellie | 475 |
| BR Brazil | — | 37,565as Eli | 1 in 5.6K | 44K | Elly | 67 |
| GB United Kingdom | #416 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 534 | Ellie | 268 |
| FI Finland | — | 10,819as Elli | 1 in 515 | 25K | Ellie | 15 |
| SE Sweden | — | 7,956 | 1 in 1.3K | 8K | Ellie | 36 |
| NO Norway | — | 7,277as Eli | 1 in 751 | 23K | Elly | 22 |
| DK Denmark | #538 | 2,913 | 1 in 2K | 2.9K | Elly | 43 |
| NL Netherlands | #164 | 997as Elle | 1 in 17K | 3.8K | Elly | 91 |
122,713 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling eli. 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; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Ellie 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.
English: pet form of any of the numerous female names beginning with the syllable El -, in particular ELEANOR . Cognate: Scottish Gaelic: EILIDH (re-Anglicized as HELEN ) .
as a word
In gmw-ecg, a diminutive of the female given name Elfriede
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Joseph Kesselb. 1898FRnot in their usual nameFrench journalist and novelist (1898–1979)
- Elwyn Brooks Whiteb. 1899USnot in their usual nameAmerican author (1899–1985)
- Jean Zayb. 1904FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician, Minister of National Education and Fine Arts (1904–1944)
- Elie Wieselb. 1928USnot in their usual nameRomanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)
- Elwyn Berlekampb. 1940USnot in their usual nameAmerican mathematician (1940-2019)
- Elie Samahab. 1955LBnot in their usual nameAmerican film producer
- Ellie Kemperb. 1980USAmerican actress
- Ellie Kendrickb. 1990GBBritish actress
- Ellie Bamberb. 1997GBBritish actress and model
- Blancheb. 1999BEnot in their usual nameBelgian singer
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)
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)
Attested in 93 sources across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 70K | #724 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8K | #468 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6.2K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 5.4K | #623 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 4.5K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 2.9K | #198 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 1.5K | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024) | 2024 | 534 | #88 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 497 | #724 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 423 | #3,572 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2024 | 351 | #12 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 340 | #1,323 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What are other forms of the name Ellie?
- In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages; Nelly, Nellie and Lillia are recorded short or pet forms; it is recorded as a short form of Ellen and Eleanor.
- Is Ellie a male or female name?
- Ellie is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Ellie have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 123 thousand people named Eli, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ellie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ellie is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ellie?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 7,956 people named Ellie, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Ellie compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Ellie is the 164th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Ellie mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ellie (Elly) är ursprungligen en engelsk smekform till namn som → Eleonora, → Elisabeth, → Ellen.
- How do you pronounce Ellie?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛʎi/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ellieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ellie” — the 164th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.