How Many People Are Named Elly?
people named Elly are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 77,100 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,595 babies named Elly in Social Security records from 1921 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
191 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Dutch diminutive of ELISABETH or an English variant of ELLIE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Elly in English. Counting Elly and these spellings together, about 106,214 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Elly (99.8%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Elly alive today is about 19 years old, and 82% are under 30. Half of them were between 8 and 24 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Elly first appears in the records in 1921 and was given most often in 2010, to 191 babies. In 2025, 129 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1921 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Elly has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,254, in 2010. In 2025 it ranked #1,613.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,613 |
| Best rank | #1,254 (2010) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,431 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Elly alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Elly were born in California than in any other state: about 504 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Elly was given 2 times as often in Indiana, 1.9 times in California and 1.9 times in Wisconsin.
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