as a Last Name
- 12,600
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Ely
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from the cathedral city on an island in the fens north of Cambridge. It is so named from Old English ǣl ‘eel’ + gē ‘district’.
| 2,473rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 12,600
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Ely per capita
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