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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Ellington

Recorded for both sexesGen Alpha

2025 rank

#2,868

up +664 places

2025 births

59

up +15 births

All-time births

1,004

6% of them in 2025

More common than

90%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2015
85 births
Best rank
#2,218
in 2015
First recorded
2001
#16,084 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2017
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
25 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 201585#2,218Peak
  2. 201883#2,227
  3. 201678#2,392
  4. 201978#2,310
  5. 202267#2,609

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,218 in 2015 · peak births 85 in 2015

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 41% boys■ 59% girls

700 boys · 1,004 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Ellington has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.