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Ellie vs Elliotte

American parents have registered 106,857 Ellies since 1880, against 1,092 Elliottes. Ellie is still ahead, with 6,176 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ellie against Elliotte, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ellie Elliotte

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Ellie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1955, when Ellie had 69 and Elliotte had 6.

Side by side

  Ellie Elliotte
Total US births 106,8571,092
Most in one year 6,322108
Babies in 2025 6,17677
Estimated living today 102,0001,100
Median age today 87
Peak year 20242024
Best rank 21st girls1,942nd girls
Rank in 2025 24th2,354th
First recorded 18801922
Girls / boys 105,677 / 1,1801,029 / 63

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ellie Elliotte
England and Wales 63,78226

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ellie and Elliotte.