Ellison - Baby Name Meaning, Origin, and Popularity for a Boy | Nameberry

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About Ellison

Updates Ellis -- but also has a lot of feminine potential thanks to Allison/Ellie similarity.

As of October 2026, Ellison ranked #1679 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #748 in 1883.

Editor's take: The name Ellison is a boy's name of English origin meaning "son of Ellis".

Popularity & trends

US popularity — history

US rank, lower is more popular · SSA data 2014–2025

Actual · SSA

20142025

18802025

Data table

Year	US rank	Births	Per million
2014	#1,984	72	37.5
2015	#1,695	92	48
2016	#1,666	95	50.1
2017	#1,597	101	54.6
2018	#1,628	100	55.1
2019	#1,871	80	44.6
2020	#1,779	85	49.2
2021	#1,713	95	54.3
2022	#1,831	88	50.4
2023	#1,931	81	47.4
2024	#2,058	73	42.4
2025	#1,679	98	57.4

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Famous Ellisons

Ellison DuRant "Cotton Ed" Smith
U.S. Senator from South Carolina
Ellison Shoji Onizuka
American astronaut
Ellison Myers Brown
American marathon runner
Ellison Hatfield
American murdered in the Hatfield,McCoy feud
Ellison "Cotton Top" Mounts
son of Ellison Hatfield
Franklyn Vincent Ellison Seales
American actor
Beckham Ellison Holley (b. 2010)
son of sports journalist Michael Holley
Larry Ellison
founder of American company Oracle
Ralph Ellison
American author of "Invisible Man"
Harlan Ellison
American author

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