Ellie-May

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ellie-May: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ellie-May: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #205 in 2010, and it stood at #1,160 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
57times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#205highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#736
1997	#489
1998	#561
1999	#498
2000	#492
2001	#460
2002	#441
2003	#342
2004	#328
2005	#269
2006	#292
2007	#271
2008	#226
2009	#239
2010	#205
2011	#213
2012	#244
2013	#363
2014	#383
2015	#455
2016	#560
2017	#514
2018	#745
2019	#717
2020	#894
2021	#1454
2022	#1416
2023	#2504
2024	#1160

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2023: #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2504 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #736 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #205 among girls in England and Wales, in 2010 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1160 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Ellie-May appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,952 births with the name.

Ellie-May across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ellie-May's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#736 (1996)	#205 (2010)	#1160 (2024)	29 of 29	2,952 (1996–2024)	243 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#587 (2005)	#435 (2012)	#856 (2023)	16 of 19	91 (2005–2023)	10 (2012)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#384 (2006)	#223 (2015)	#313 (2018)	12 of 13	64 (2006–2018)	8 (2015)

Ellie-May by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ellie-May in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	194	4 of 10	49
2000sbusiest	1,349	10 of 10	135
2010s	1,287	10 of 10	129
2020s	122	5 of 10	24

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 135 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births fell by 81, from 207 to 126.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ellie-May appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #205 in England and Wales in 2010.

Ellie-May's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1160	29	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2504	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1416	22	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1454	21	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#894	40	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#717	54	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#745	53	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#514	83	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#560	75	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#455	95	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#383	116	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#363	126	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#244	207	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#213	235	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#205	243	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#239	200	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#226	224	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#271	178	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#292	158	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#269	163	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#328	119	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#342	109	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#441	72	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#460	66	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#492	60	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#498	58	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#561	48	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#489	57	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#736	31	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#313	5	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#251	7	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#223	8	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#365	4	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#255	7	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#330	5	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#444	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#258	7	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#364	4	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#254	7	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#351	4	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#384	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#457	8	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#524	7	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#585	6	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	7	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#660	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#435	10	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#465	9	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#663	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#742	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#546	7	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#705	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #205, first reached in 2010.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 243 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 10 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

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Ryley · #204, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aryan · #205, 31y
Emily-Rose · #205, 29y
Brenna · #206, 20y
Jordyn · #206, 22y

Ellie-May was ranked #205 in England and Wales · Girls in 2010. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ellie-May and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ellie-May without appearing here.

Ellie-May moved ahead of

Katrina Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2504 and #2504 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1160 and #4192.
Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2504 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1160 and #3695.
Tayla Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2504 and #1774 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1160 and #3318.
Stacey Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2504 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1160 and #3015.

Moved ahead of Ellie-May

Mari Compare
In 2020 they stood at #894 and #1127 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1454 and #957.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #717 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #894 and #460.
Eileen Compare
In 2020 they stood at #894 and #1238 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1454 and #1069.
Amalie Compare
In 2020 they stood at #894 and #992 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1454 and #1102.

Moved the opposite way to Ellie-May

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ellie-May went from #736 to #1160 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ellie-May went from #736 to #1160 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ellie-May went from #736 to #1160 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ellie-May went from #736 to #1160 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Ellie-May

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ellie-May went from #736 to #1160 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ellie-May went from #736 to #1160 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ellie-May went from #736 to #1160 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ellie-May went from #736 to #1160 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #205 in England and Wales in 2010. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ellie-May

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Popularity journey

Ellie-May across 3 official records

Ellie-May by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Ellie-May across 3 official records

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