Ellin

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Aboriginal; to move

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ellin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 591K(measured from records)
  • JMJamaica≈1 in 116K
  • SESweden1 in 200K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

563 people, 2020

Sources
188 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 116K (inferred from the name graph)

Jamaica, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Aboriginal; to move

Sources 1

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Where in the world(measured from records)

Ellin 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 Ellin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5631 in 591K546Ellin188
PH Philippines≈240 est.≈1 in 465K—Ellin22
IT Italy≈140 est.≈1 in 439K1Ellin3
GB United Kingdom≈140 est.≈1 in 465KlistedEllin58
BR Brazil1181 in 1.8M118—1
MY Malaysia≈120 est.≈1 in 285K—Ellin22
AU Australia≈62 est.≈1 in 412K1Ellin34
SE Sweden511 in 200K51Ellin6
JM Jamaica≈24 est.≈1 in 116K—Ellin1
NO Norway≈15 est.≈1 in 360K68Ellin9

563 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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ellin is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Philippines, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Éllin, Ellín

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Ęllin

  • Arabic given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, United States, Syria, Morocco

    Also written Éllin, Ellîn

42 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ellin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Azerbaijani, Hellene, Ancient Greek (native or inhabitant of Ancient Greece), Grecian

    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)

17501800185019001950Ellin Moale Curson Poultney, b. 1799Ellin Berlin, b. 1903Mary Ellin Barrett, b. 1926

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 44 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Ellin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020362#60,172
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000354#54,522
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010279#70,208
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—6#49,617
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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

What does the name Ellin mean, and where does it come from?
Aboriginal; to move Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
Is Ellin a male or female name?
Ellin is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Ellin have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 563 people named Ellin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ellin.
How common is the name Ellin?
In the United States, the national register counted 563 people named Ellin in 2020, about 1 in 591 thousand residents.

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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, “Ellin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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