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Ellwood

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Ellwood is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 612th, in 1901.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
191882 births
Best rank
#612in 1901
Since 1882
1,979people given the name
Babies named Ellwood, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,979 boys have been named Ellwood in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 82 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 82 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 31%. It has spent 32 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Ellwood
1880s23
1890s47
1900s78
1910s482
1920s612
1930s281
1940s231
1950s133
1960s53
1970s17
1990s5
2010s10
2020s7

In 1918, its biggest year

Ellwood was the 694th 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 Ellwood

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

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.