Is this a boy or girls name?

[mothertobe789]

Ellis. I know it is unisex but would you think more of a boy or girl if you heard this name?

[MummyBearRose]

I personally immediately picture a little boy with this name heard of a lot of boys names it however no girls at all!😁

[AnneTwackie]

Know a boy and girl: Ellis- boy (ellisss), Elise- girl (elleese)

[Whatififall]

Boy

[WerewolfNumber1]

Ellis - boy
Elise - girl

[MilkyCuppa]

Boy

[ernjas]

I think Ellis and Elise are too completely different names? Elise is only a girls name.

As for Ellis, I always picture a boy!

[Pixel99]

I do think boy as DD has one (boy called Ellis that is) in her class

[WomanOfTime]

I've only ever seen it used as a surname.

[MummyBearRose]

@ernjas I completely agree! Elise is just a girls name .. Ell-ees

[mothertobe789]

Yeah Elise is a different name. I was thinking of the female character Ellis Grey in greys anatomy! Lol

[stopdropandroll]

ellis seems like a boy’s name to me. i’ve met a few girls called eliz as a name on its own or you could use elizabeth and shorten to eliz/el/ellie etc...?

[ernjas]

@mothertobe789 yeah, just wasn't sure why Elise had been brought into it 😂 Ellis is definitely a unisex name and I think a girl could pull it off and people wouldn't question it after she was named it but I do automatically think boy first!

[nuttyknitter]

I have a female cousin called Ellis - she's in her sixties - but I still think of it as more of a boys name.

[Anythingforacatslife]

I would use it for either and we seriously considered it for dd.

[strawberrypenguin]

Boys name. I know one boy and no girls so that's my association

[RiverTam]

Boy. But it wouldn’t be totally out there for it to be a girls name.

[Hippopotas]

I think of Ellis Peters pseudonym of Edith Pargeter who wrote the Cadfael books

[DramaAlpaca]

I see it as a boys' name, but I've seen it used for girls. If I didn't know otherwise I'd assume an Ellis was male.

[opalescent]

My daughter (nearly two) is named Ellis. We loved its simplicity and the fact that it was quite gender neutral.
It suits her perfectly and we get lovely comments from people about her name.

[lebkuchenlover]

Ellis = boy

Elise, Alice, Elsie = girl

[Fireandfury1]

I think boy's name but I know an older woman called Ellis! Not Elise or Elsie - they are different names.

[FestiveNut]

Boy

[AnnieOH1]

It makes me think of Emily Bronte but then it was her male pseudonym (Ellis Bell). If I got it on CV I think I'd have to wait and see, I wouldn't want to assume. I think a lot of people would think it was female if they'd never heard the name before.

[Awwlookatmybabyspider]

Predominantly boy, but I have heard it on a few girls, so both

[LovelyGirlNOT]

Sounds masculine to me