Entry № 2905 · English origin

Ellison Ellison — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EL-ih-suhn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Son of Elias (Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man + Larry Ellison)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "son of elias (ralph ellison's invisible man + larry ellison)".

Ellison is from the Old English — son of Elias; from the Hebrew Eliyāhū (the prophet Elijah). Pharrell Williams's son Rocket Ayer Williams has Ellison as a family name. Sean Ellison — Marvel Comics character.

Son of Elias.

The name in its native script.

Ellison
Transliteration
Ellison
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛl.ɪ.sən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ellison stands.

Ellison does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ellisons before her.

Real people
Ralph Ellison
American Invisible Man novelist.
1914 – 1994
Larry Ellison
American Oracle billionaire.
born 1944
Harlan Ellison
American sci-fi writer.
1934 – 2018
In fiction
Ellison
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Ellison.

The number behind Ellison.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ellison reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.