Ellice
English
Etymology 1
Probably a variant spelling of Alice or Elise.
Proper noun
Ellice
- A female given name.
Etymology 2
Variant spelling of Ellis.
Proper noun
Ellice (countable and uncountable, plural Ellices)
- A surname.
- A former rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada, now part of Ellice-Archie.
Derived terms
- Ellice-Archie
- Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Ellice is the 36944th most common surname in England, belonging to 89 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ellice”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 522.
- Forebears