Ellen Factsheet

Meaning
Greek via Medieval English - possibly 'torch'

England and Wales statistics
Anglo-Saxon record: no entries
13th century: no entries
Earliest birth record: Ellen Smith (b. 1510)
1550-1690: High: #12 (1550); Low: no entries (1660-80); fairly stable at #17 then decline
1840-1905: High: #7 (1850, 1860); Low: #20 (1905); stable with decline at end of period
1914-1994: High: #24 (1914); Low: no entries (1944-84); decline with reemergence at end of period
2004: #124
2008: #210
2011: #258 (189 births)

US statistics
1880-2011: High: #59 (1884, 1946); Low: #699 (2009, 2011); slight decline, slight rise, slow decline
2011: #699 (395 births)