Ellis - girl or boy?

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Do you think of Ellis being a girls or boys name?

(There are people of both genders with the name but wondering what comes to mind)

Boy.

Origin of the name: Elis, a medieval vernacular form of Elias, the Greek version of the Hebrew name Eliyahu, rendered as Elijah in the English Bible.

Ellis- boy
Elise- girl

Boy.

I like Elise for a girl.

Boy. I know one age 26. I think his parents really wanted to call him Elliot but couldn't because of another Elliot in the family.

Absolutely not a girl name.

I think Ellis spelling is associated with boys, while Elise spelling is all girls. They have different origins.

Are you mixing up Elis and Elise? They are not related.
Elis is the Welsh spelling of Ellis, or rather, Ellis is the anglicised spelling of Elis. It's from Elias

Elise is a girl's name from Elizabeth

Boy

Unisex but more for a girl.

I teach a boy Ellis but I think on it as a female name and got a surprise on the first day of term!

Girl

It's from Elias/Elijah.

Boy

Both Emily Bronte and Edith Pargeter took it as their male nom de plume (Ellis Bell and Ellis Peters)

The name Ellis, with that spelling, makes me think of the "Grey's Anatomy"-character Ellis Grey, who is a woman (mother of Meredith Grey).
(But I know that Ellis can be a male name, too).

In my home country, the name Elis, with that spelling, is a male name.

And the name Elise is a female name.

@LindorDoubleChoc Absolutely can be a girls name. I know 2 women called Ellis (age 34 and 31) and 2 boys (age 7 and 1) 🤷🏻‍♀️

No idea about origins etc but to me it’s completely unisex 🤷🏻‍♀️

Boy

Boy

Girl

Probably girl first as there's one in Grey's Anatomy, but either.

Boy

Neither. It's a surname not a first name.

Boy. It was an uncle's name.

Boy

Boy

I only know male Ellis’

I'm in Wales and it's quite a popular boy's name here