Ellen
English
editEtymology
editMedieval English variant of Helen, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē); also used as a variant of Eleanor or a feminine counterpart to Elliot.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editEllen
- 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
editDescendants
edit- → Hawaiian: ʻElena
Translations
editDanish
editProper noun
editEllen
- 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
editProper noun
editEllen
- a female given name, variant of Helena
Finnish
editEtymology
editFrom English Ellen and Danish Ellen.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editEllen
- 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
editInflection 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
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editEllen
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from English Ellen and Danish Ellen.
Proper noun
editEllen
- a female given name
Norwegian
editEtymology
editDanish and Norwegian variant of Helene. Later also borrowed from English Ellen.
Proper noun
editEllen
- a female given name
Related terms
editReferences
editSwedish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English Ellen and Danish Ellen.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Proper noun
editEllen c (genitive Ellens)
- a female given name
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- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- 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
- Danish female given names
- 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
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