Ellis

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I am only TTC but we have talked about names already.

What do you think of the name Ellis for a boy?

I think it's lovely

Dd may have been an Elliot if a boy which is similarish!

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I love it, it's on my shortlist

I love it!

Love it! :)

I've always thought of it as a girl's name - my friend's 14 year old is called Ellis.

I like it, its on our list too.

I don't mind it but think it is a bit feminine. Sounds more like a girls name to me.

love it!

I like it. Prefer it spelled Elis though, it's the traditional spelling.

Montsi very much traditionally a boys name, in Wales at least.

Lovely name and to me definitely male although I did once know a girl called Ellis, too.

DD2 and me were jokingly discussing what the future (long time away, I hope, she's 13) GCs might be called.

Ellis was one we both thought was nice. There was an Ellis at primary.

I like it. Only for a boy though, not for a girl.

Going against the grain here, it wouldn't be my choice. But, to me, it is a surname.

I really like it (for a boy, not a girl)

Leeds, Ellis was a given name before it was a surname. The male name is a variant of 'Elias' and the female name a variant of 'Alice', both from the Middle Ages before standardised spelling.

Ellis was the name that Emily Bronte used as her pen name for Wuthering Heights. I love it. I would have used it myself for one of my boys but knew I would become cheesed off with people thinking that it was a female name. However, I do still like it.

She did that to pass herself off a man didn't she Cathy. I would say times have changed so much since then and women aren't encouraged to pretend they're male to sell books but JK Rowling was at least advised to be "ambiguous" as apparently female authors don't tend to do well in the fantasy genre.