Ellie

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Elly in BR Brazil, NL Netherlands, DK Denmark and 5 more, Elli in FI Finland, SE Sweden, GR Greece, Eli in BG Bulgaria, HR Croatia and Элли in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ellie is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name44K records spelled Ellie21 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Éllie, Ellïë, Ellïe, Ellië, Ellíe

• Indonesian given name1.5K records spelled Ellie3 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Èllįë, Ellië

• a separate given name392 records spelled Ellie5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Ellié, Ĕlliĕ, Ëllïe, Ellïe

• Romanian given name265 records spelled Ellie2 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.

Other recorded senses●

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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,047 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ellie?

We estimate roughly 235 thousand people bear Ellie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Ellie have the most bearers?

We estimate about 121 thousand people bear Ellie in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ellie.

Where is Ellie most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ellie is densest in Finland — about 1 in 515 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Ellie compared with other names?

In Ireland, Ellie is the 144th most common given name of 13,994 given names recorded there.

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.

What does the name Ellie mean?

Recorded meaning: Ellie (Elly) är ursprungligen en engelsk smekform till namn som → Eleonora, → Elisabeth, → Ellen.