Ellie

Ellie
Gender	Female and male
Origin
Word/name	Ancient Greek, and others
Meaning	"Ellinis" Hellenic, and others
Other names
Related names	Elnora, Elena, Ellisha, Elisha, Elesha, Elham, Eliana, Elisabel, Elisabeth, Élisabeth, Elisabetta, Elise, Élise, Elisheba, Elisheva, Ellienor, Elmira, Elissa, Eliza, Elizabeta, Elizabeth, Elize, Eloise, Elspeth, Emelia, Petronella, Pieternella; Eleazer, Elliot, Elron, Elston.

Ellie, or Elly, is a given name, usually feminine. The name stands on its own or can be a shortened form of (variations of) Elnora, Eleanor or Elizabeth. It can also be a short form of Elena, Elham, Elaheh, Eliana, Eloise, Emelia, Ellisha, Elisha, Elesha, Shelly, or Petronella and as a masculine name of Eleazer, Elliot, Elron, or Elston. It can also be a given name in its own right or a nickname. In Greek mythology, Ellie (Helle) was the daughter of Athamas and Nephele; sister of Phrixus. It may refer to:

People

Women

Elly Ameling (born 1933), Dutch soprano
Elly Appel-Vessies (born 1952), Dutch tennis player
Ellie Bamber (born 1997), English actress
Ellie Beaven (born 1980), English actress
Elly Beinhorn (1907–2007), German pilot
Ellie Black (born 1995), Canadian artistic gymnast
Ellie Blackburn (born 1995), Australian rules footballer
Elly Blanksma-van den Heuvel (born 1959), Dutch politician
Elly Botbijl (born 1940), Dutch fencer
Ellie Brazil (born 1999), English association footballer
Ellie van den Brom (born 1949), Dutch speed skater
Ellie Brush (born 1988), Australian association footballer
Ellie Cachette (born 1985), American technology executive, activist and author
Ellie Campbell, a British singer
Ellie Carpenter (born 2000), Australian footballer
Ellie Cole (born 1991), Australian Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair basketball player
Ellie Cornell (born 1963), American actress and movie producer
Ellie Crisell (born 1976), British journalist and television presenter
Ellie Crowe, author
Ellie Curson (born 1994), Welsh footballer
Elly Dammers (1921–2009), Dutch javelin thrower
Ellie Daniel (born 1950), American swimmer
Ellie Darcey-Alden (born 1999), English actress
Elly Dekker (born 1943), Dutch physicist and museum curator
Ellie Downie (born 1999), British artistic gymnast
Ellie Drennan (born 1998), Australian singer-songwriter, youngest winner of The Voice Australia
Ellie Emberson, British Labour Party councillor
Ellie Goulding (born 1986), British singer, songwriter and musician
Ellie Greenwich (1940–2009), American pop singer, songwriter and record producer
Ellie Greenwood (born 1979), British ultramarathon runner
Elly Griffiths (born 1963), British author
Elly Gross (born 1929), Jewish Holocaust survivor and author
Ellie Guggenheimer (1912–2008), American civic leader, author and philanthropist
Elly Hakami (born 1969), American tennis player
Elly Haney (1931–1999), American feminist theologian and community activist
Ellie Harrison (artist) (born 1979), British artist
Ellie Harrison (journalist) (born 1977), British journalist and presenter best known for her television wildlife work
Elly Heuss-Knapp (1881–1952), German politician, social reformer, author and wife of German president Theodor Heuss
Ellie Hill (born 1975), American politician
Elly van Hulst (born 1959), Dutch middle-distance runner
Ellie Jackson (1825–1854), first wife of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Elly Jackson (born 1988), British singer, songwriter and the sole member of La Roux, a former synthpop duo
Ellie Kanner, American film and television director
Ellie Kawamura (born 1993), American figure skater
Ellie Kemper (born 1980), American actress, comedian and writer
Ellie Kendrick (born 1990), British actress
Ellie Kinnaird (born 1931), North Carolina politician
Elly Koot (born 1943), Dutch model, Miss Europe 1964
Elly Kouwenhoven (born 1949), Duch author and politician
Ellie Krieger (born 1965), American nutritionist, author and host of the television show Healthy Appetite
Ellie Lambeti (1926–1983), Greek actress
Elly Lieber (born 1932), Austrian luger, 1959 world champion
Elly Ney (1882–1968), German romantic pianist
Elly M. Peterson (1914–2008), American politician
Ellie Moon, Canadian actor and playwright
Elly Plooij-van Gorsel (born 1947), Dutch politician
Ellie Raymond (born 1991), Australian footballer
Ellie Roebuck (born 1991), English association footballer
Ellie Simmonds (born 1994), British Paralympian swimmer
Ellie Soutter (2000–2018), British snowboarder
Elli Stai (born 1954), Greek journalist and TV presenter
Elly Stone (born 1927), American singer and actress
Ellie Taylor (born 1983/1984), English comedian
Elly de Waard (born 1940), Dutch poet
Ellie Watton (born 1989), British field hockey player
Elly Winter (1898–1987), German communist and political activist
Elly Yunara (1923–1992), Indonesian film

Men

Elrod Hendricks (1940–2005), American Major League Baseball catcher and coach
Elston Howard (1929–1980), American baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball
Elly Idris (born 1962), Indonesian football coach and former player
Eleazer Elly Kadoorie (1867–1944), Jewish businessman and philanthropist in China and Hong Kong
Elly Kayanja (born 1959), Ugandan brigadier
Elly Kleinman (born 1952), Jewish-American business executive and philanthropist
Elly Lefort (born 1987), French and Monegasque bobsledder
Elliot Ellie Mannette (born 1927), Trinidadian musical instrument maker
Eliseo Ellie Rodríguez (born 1946), Puerto Rican professional baseball catcher
Elly Rono (born 1970), Kenyan former long-distance runner
Ellie G. Shuler Jr. (born 1936), retired United States Air Force lieutenant general
Elly Tumwine (born 1954), Ugandan general and politician
Elly Wamala (1935–2004), Ugandan musician
Elly (dancer)(born 1987), Japanese dancer

Fictional characters

Elli, a character and bachelorette in the Story of Seasons video game franchise
Ellie, a character in Greek mythology who figured prominently in the story of Jason and the Argonauts
Ellegaard, a supporting character in Minecraft Story Mode (Referred to as Ellie for short)
Ellie Arroway, the main character in Carl Sagan's science fiction novel Contact and the film based on it
Eleanor Bartlet, the middle daughter of President Jed Bartlet on the television show The West Wing
Elle Bishop, a character in American television series Heroes
Ellie Rebecca Brass, on the American crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Elly May Clampett, a main character in the American television series The Beverly Hillbillies
Eleanor Elly Conway, on the Australian soap opera Neighbours
Eleanor Miss Ellie Ewing, on the American soap opera Dallas
Ellie Fredricksen, in Disney–Pixar's 2009 film Up
Ellie Linton, the protagonist of the novel Tomorrow When the War Began
Ellie Miller, a main character on the television crime drama Broadchurch
Eleanor Ellie Mills, on the British soap opera Hollyoaks
Ellie Nash, in Degrassi: The Next Generation
Ellie Riggs, the protagonist of the American sitcom Watching Ellie, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Ellie Rose, a character who appears in the Henry Stickmin Collection
Ellie Torres, a main character on the television show Cougar Town
Elly Van Houten, in the Xenogears video game
Elinor "Ellie" Walker, from the 1960s television show The Andy Griffith Show
Ellie Woodcomb, on the American series Chuck'
Dr. Ellie Sattler, a paleobotanist from the Jurrasic Park franchise.
Ellie, a female mammoth voiced by Queen Latifah in the 2006 film Ice Age: The Meltdown, the 2009 film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and the 2012 film Ice Age: Continental Drift, and the 2016 film Ice Age: Collision Course
Ellie, a ghost in Elly & Jools, an Australian children's television series
Elly, an elephant in Pocoyo, a Spanish-British pre-school animated television series
Ellie (The Last of Us), a main character from the video game The Last of Us
Ellie, in the novel The Roar by Emma Clayton
Ellie, a character from Ms. Vampire who lives in my neighborhood
Ellie Corbett, a character in the 1961 film Blue Hawaii

People

Women

Men

Fictional characters

See also