Given name & surname
Ellsworth
“from the nobleman's estate”
Ellsworth is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the nobleman's estate.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the nobleman's estate.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
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
Ellsworth through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 7,337
- 7,337 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 300 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −81%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 300 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,364 as a first name in 2020; 13,557 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ellsworth’s family of names
Ellsworth has a related form in Elsworth. Ellsworth has a related form in Ellswerth. Ellsworth has a related form in Ellswirth.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
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.
People named Ellsworth
- Ellsworth KellyAmerican painter, sculptor, and printmaker (1923-2015)
- Ellsworth VinesUS tennis player (1911–1994)
- Ellsworth HuntingtonAmerican geographer (1876-1947)
- Bumpy JohnsonAfrican-American mobster (1905-1968)
- Ellsworth BunkerAmerican diplomat (1894–1984)
- Ellsworth Paine KillipAmerican botanist (1890-1968)
- Ellsworth FarisAmerican sociologist (1874–1953)
- Ellsworth Jerome HillAmerican Presbyterian minister and botanist (1833-1917)
- Ellsworth Doughertybotanist1921–1965
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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