Ellen
51
Babies in 2024
-61%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 929
+42%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Ellen
Ellen peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (929 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 51 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Ellen reached its peak in 1996, when 929 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #63 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 51 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 8,786 girls have been officially registered with the name Ellen in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 890 girls were registered with the name, starting from 132 in 2014 and ending at 51 in 2024.