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Ellison

Girl's name · #1067 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave

74% girls · 26% boys — Ellison is also given to boys: 98 in 2025, about 26% in recent years. Ellison →

Popularity over time

Ellison reached its best rank, #838, in 2019 and ranked #1067 in 2025. Roughly 5,700 girls have been named Ellison since 1914.

Across the states

In recent years, Ellison ran about 6× its national rate in South Carolina, and about 3× across Alabama and Tennessee.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 23 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Ellisons

• Ellison Scotland Gibb — Scottish suffragist
• Ellison Barber — American journalist
• Ellison Harvie — Australian architect
• Ellison Goodall — American female long-distance runner

As a surname

It is also an American family name — about 43,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

• Larry Ellison — American internet entrepreneur and businessman (born 1944)
• Ralph Ellison — American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1914–1994)
• Harlan Ellison — American writer (1934–2018)

What Ellisons become

Among 18 notable people named Ellison:

No single standout — notable Ellisons spread across many fields.

Similar names: Ellis · Carsyn · Elliott · Sloan · Aislinn · Elayna

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