Ely

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Ely is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 40 births. Its best rank was 551st, in 1882.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 400.00% of boys
Peak year: 2009159 births
Best rank: #551in 1882
Since 1880: 5,022people given the name

Babies named Ely, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

4,422 boys have been named Ely in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 159 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2003, and the 2000s alone account for 28%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 600 girls have also been given it, 12% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

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

By decade

Decade	boys named Ely
1880s	42
1890s	43
1900s	34
1910s	187
1920s	170
1930s	90
1940s	84
1950s	84
1960s	74
1970s	224
1980s	352
1990s	484
2000s	1,254
2010s	1,079
2020s	221

In 2009, its biggest year

Ely was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2009 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Alexander and William. See all of 2009.

Names that rose and fell with Ely

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.