Ellen
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English
Etymology
Medieval English variant of Helen, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē); also used as a variant of Eleanor or a feminine counterpart to Elliot.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ellen
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
- And how doth my cousin, your bedfellow? and your fairest daughter and mine, my god-daughter Ellen?
- 1928, Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train:
- "Is her name Ellen or Helen, Miss Viner? I thought - "
Miss Viner closed her eyes.
"I can sound my h's, dear, as well as anyone, but Helen is not a suitable name for a servant. I don't know what the mothers in the lower classes are coming to nowadays."
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Hawaiian: ʻElena
Translations
female given name
Danish
Proper noun
Ellen
- a female given name, variant of Helene
References
- [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 49 325 females with the given name Ellen have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1910s. Accessed on 19 May 2011.
Estonian
Proper noun
Ellen
- a female given name, variant of Helena
Finnish
Etymology
From English Ellen and Danish Ellen.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ellen
- a female given name
- 1985, Simo Hämäläinen, Jätkät, Weilin + Göös, →ISBN, page 158:
- ―Minä olen Ellen.
―Nätti nimi. Ruohtalainen.
―Eikä ole.
―Ei sitten, ellet tykkää.- ―I'm Ellen.
―Nice name. Swedish one.
―No it isn't.
―Okay, if you don't like that.
- ―I'm Ellen.
Declension
Inflection of Ellen (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Ellen | Ellenit | |
genitive | Ellenin | Ellenien | |
partitive | Elleniä | Ellenejä | |
illative | Elleniin | Elleneihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Ellen | Ellenit | |
accusative | nom. | Ellen | Ellenit |
gen. | Ellenin | ||
genitive | Ellenin | Ellenien | |
partitive | Elleniä | Ellenejä | |
inessive | Ellenissä | Elleneissä | |
elative | Ellenistä | Elleneistä | |
illative | Elleniin | Elleneihin | |
adessive | Ellenillä | Elleneillä | |
ablative | Elleniltä | Elleneiltä | |
allative | Ellenille | Elleneille | |
essive | Elleninä | Elleneinä | |
translative | Elleniksi | Elleneiksi | |
abessive | Ellenittä | Elleneittä | |
instructive | — | Ellenein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
- Ellen is the 146th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 4,802 female individuals (and as a middle name to 7,314 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German
Etymology 1
Noun
Ellen
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English Ellen and Danish Ellen.
Proper noun
Ellen
- a female given name
Norwegian
Etymology
Danish and Norwegian variant of Helene. Later also borrowed from English Ellen.
Proper noun
Ellen
- a female given name
Related terms
References
- Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
- [2] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 13 663 females with the given name Ellen living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1950s. Accessed on April 18th, 2011.
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English Ellen and Danish Ellen.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Ellen c (genitive Ellens)
- a female given name
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- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ɛlən
- Rhymes:English/ɛlən/2 syllables
- English terms with homophones
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English given names
- English female given names
- English female given names from Ancient Greek
- English terms with quotations
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- Danish given names
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- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian proper nouns
- Estonian given names
- Estonian female given names
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish terms derived from Danish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/elːen
- Rhymes:Finnish/elːen/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- German non-lemma forms
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- Swedish terms borrowed from English
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- Swedish common-gender nouns
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