Ellie

Locally spelled Elly in BR Brazil, NO Norway, NL Netherlands and 1 more and Eli in BG Bulgaria.

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.

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

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

• Liz
• Lizzie
• Lizzy
• Addie
• Liza

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.

Ellie is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, United Kingdom, Mexico

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Éllie, Ellïe, Ellïë, Ellíe, Ellië

• Russian given name42 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, United States, United Kingdom, Poland

  Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

  Also written Элли, Аллея, Ally, Elli, Еллі

• Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, United Kingdom, Philippines

  Also written Èllįë, Ellië

• a separate given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

  Also written Ëllïe, Ĕlliĕ, Ellié, Ellïe

• Romanian given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands

  Also written Ễllîễ

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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 word·kaikki.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.

• Elie Wieselb. 1928USnot in their usual nameRomanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)
• Elie Samahab. 1955LBnot in their usual nameAmerican film producer
• Ellie Kemperb. 1980USAmerican 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.

93 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 50 countries.

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

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 a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2024), Norway (SSB) and Denmark (Danmarks Statistik), among others.

Which countries have the most people named Ellie?

In the United States, the national register counted about 123 thousand people named Eli, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, United Kingdom, Finland and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.

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.