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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Ely

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#2,653

up +411 places

2025 births

49

up +9 births

All-time births

4,471

1% of them in 2025

More common than

96%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2009
159 births
Best rank
#551
in 1882
First recorded
1880
#953 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1990
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
131 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 2009159#1,149Peak
  2. 2008153#1,171
  3. 2005152#1,085
  4. 2011150#1,181
  5. 2007146#1,208

Rank over time

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

Best rank #551 in 1882 · peak births 159 in 2009

Boys and girls

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

● 88% boys■ 12% girls

4,471 boys · 616 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 Ely has ranked, decade by decade

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