Ellsworth
Ellsworth is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 296th, in 1895.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1918300 births
- Best rank
- #296in 1895
- Since 1880
- 7,332people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,332 boys have been named Ellsworth in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 300 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 300 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 71 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ellsworth | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 176 | |
| 1890s | 260 | |
| 1900s | 322 | |
| 1910s | 1,908 | |
| 1920s | 2,115 | |
| 1930s | 1,045 | |
| 1940s | 658 | |
| 1950s | 399 | |
| 1960s | 208 | |
| 1970s | 100 | |
| 1980s | 67 | |
| 1990s | 21 | |
| 2000s | 10 | |
| 2010s | 32 | |
| 2020s | 11 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Ellsworth was the 330th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Ellsworth
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Waldopeak 1915
- Chesterpeak 1920
- Orvillepeak 1920
- Aloysiuspeak 1916
- Rupertpeak 1920
- Orvalpeak 1918
- Alphonsepeak 1918
- Clementpeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.