As of August 2015, average apartment rent within 10 miles of Seattle, WA is $1897. One bedroom apartments in Seattle rent for $1615 a month on average and two bedroom apartment rents average $2136.
Ellis [el-lis] as a boys' name (also used less widely as girls' name Ellis) is pronounced EL-iss. It is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Ellis is Jehovah is God. Anglicization of Elias, from Elijah, so shares the same source with Elliot. Modern use is often a transferred use of the surname.
Cutting through the swathes of arguments as to whether the origin was from Alyes (French) Alice (English) Alan (Scottish) or Ellis (Norman from Hebrew), what can be said with historical accuracy is that the oldest know recording is English! (see below).