Ellison
Meaning of Ellison
Ellison springs from Old English roots meaning “child of Ellis,” yet it stretches farther back to the Hebrew Eliyahu—“my God is Yahweh”—so this name carries a quiet spark of faith wherever it goes. He or she, porque es unisex, feels at home in the board-room, the art studio, or the soccer field, riding the modern wave of cool surname-turned-first-names. Listeners may picture novelist Ralph Ellison, whose words danced like jazz, or think of gentle cousin Allison, but Ellison keeps its own rhythm—crisp, bright, and a little adventurous. Parents love that it has hovered in the U.S. Top 1000 for decades; like a steady heartbeat, it never quits. In every playground, Ellison sounds like a friendly whistle of possibility, inviting the child who bears it to write a bold story—en español, in English, in any language of the heart.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as EL-ih-suhn (/ˈɛlɪsn/)
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Notable People Named Ellison
| Ellison Shoji Onizuka was the first Asian American astronaut to reach space and tragically died in the Challenger disaster. |
| Ellison Myers Brown, widely known as Tarzan Brown, was a Native American marathon runner. |
| Ellison Litton Barber is an American journalist and NBC News correspondent who reports from conflict zones, originally from Atlanta and a graduate of Wofford College. |
| Ellison Scotland Gibb was a Scottish suffragette imprisoned for militant activism and a champion chess player who won the Scottish Ladies Championship. |
| Ellison Hawks was a British writer who authored popular science books and served as editor and advertising manager for Meccano Magazine from 1921. |
| Ellison Goodall Bishop is an American former long-distance runner who won a bronze medal and led the US women to team gold at the 1979 World Cross Country Championships, and shared in a team bronze in 1980. |
