Ellen
English edit
Etymology edit
Medieval English variant of Helen, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē); also used as a variant of Eleanor or a feminine counterpart to Elliot.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
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 edit
Descendants edit
- → Hawaiian: ʻElena
Translations edit
Danish edit
Proper noun edit
Ellen
- a female given name, variant of Helene
References edit
- [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 edit
Proper noun edit
Ellen
- a female given name, variant of Helena
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From English Ellen and Danish Ellen.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
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 edit
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 edit
- 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 edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
Ellen
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from English Ellen and Danish Ellen.
Proper noun edit
Ellen
- a female given name
Norwegian edit
Etymology edit
Danish and Norwegian variant of Helene. Later also borrowed from English Ellen.
Proper noun edit
Ellen
- a female given name
Related terms edit
References edit
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English Ellen and Danish Ellen.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Proper noun edit
Ellen c (genitive Ellens)
- a female given name