as a Last Name
- 205,822
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Ellis
Meaning & Origins
English and Welsh: from the medieval personal name Elis, a vernacular form of Elijah (see Elias). In Wales this surname absorbed forms derived from the Welsh personal name Elisedd, a derivative of elus ‘kindly’, ‘benevolent’.
| 115th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 205,822
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Guam
- has the most people named Ellis per capita
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