What is the meaning of the name Ellen?

The meaning of the name Ellen is "sun ray, shining light". The origin of the name is "Greek". The name Ellen is mostly used as a girls name.

Right pronunciation of Ellen

\e(l)-len\

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Ellen is a very popular first name for girls (#126) and also really popular as a last name (#23082). Users of our site ranked the name with a 0.0 (0 vote(s)). Like or dislike the name by ranking this girls name above or write a comment on the name Ellen.

How popular is the name Ellen?

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The year 1951 was for Ellen a very good year. In that year there were 5609 births with the name Ellen. Find out if Ellen is in the top 100 girls names 1951 or check all top 100 names for any State in any year!

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