Given name & surname
Ellar
“from the alder tree”
Ellar is a variant of Ellery. One English interpretation is “from the alder tree.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ellar is a variant of Ellery. One English interpretation is “from the alder tree.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ellar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 511
- 0 boys · 511 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1956. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ellar’s family of names
Ellar has a related form in Ellery. Ellar is an English adaptation of Eallair.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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