View Message

I like this name, it looks and sounds quite nice. There's also a well-known area of my hometown called Ellice, with the same pronunciation. There's something kind of romantic about Ellis, in a melancholy yet hopeful way. I think because it puts me in mind of Ellis Island, a place where so many people came hoping for a better life and yet it was also a lonely, confusing, coldly bureaucratic place. I think of all those haunting official photographs of immigrants, and that scene in The Godfather where young Vito Corleone was given a new name and quarantined all alone. Ellis has a ghostly sort of aura for me.

---

It works on all genders for me. Ellie is a cute idea for a nickname, very logical. But for some reason I'd want to spell it "Elly".

Ellis sounds similar to Alice so I'd say definitely for a girl. Ellison is really unique and makes a better full name with nicknames like Ellis and Ellie in the same way that Allison comes with Alice and Alli as nicknames.

Ellis sounds similar to Alice so I'd say definitely for a girl. Ellison is really unique and makes a better full name with nicknames like Ellis and Ellie in the same way that Allison comes with Alice and Alli as nicknames.

Ellis sounds similar to Alice so I'd say definitely for a girl. Ellison is really unique and makes a better full name with nicknames like Ellis and Ellie in the same way that Allison comes with Alice and Alli as nicknames.

Like most surnames it's uber-masculine, not a great fit as a given name at all, and utterly ghastly on a girl.

The ones I know are all boys. I didn’t used to like it, but it’s growing on me.

I prefer it for a girl, because of Ellis Kraut.
I'd prefer Alice, though - both sound pretty much the same to me and Ellis always seems to be a last name to me.

I generally am not big on unisex names, but I quite like Ellis, and while my first thought when I think of the name is that it's masculine, I can totally see it working on a girl as it's quite soft and there are a lot of similar-sounding girl names. Ellis nn Ellie for a girl would be quite cool.

I don't really like it, I think it is more masculine

I prefer it for a girl too, but I can see it working on a boy too as it’s a surname (and the girls already have Alice as a very similar option).

---

I detest the nickname Ellie (it’s so overdone and reminds me of elephants, not that I dislike elephants lol). I think Lis or Lissy would be more interesting.