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Ella
Pronounced /ˈɛl.ə/
Rank in 2024
#30
Born in 2024
5,685
Peak year
2010 · #13
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 5,685 girls were named Ella, about 1 in every 284.
- It peaked in 2010 with 9,883 babies, ranked #13.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 345,401 girls have been named Ella since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Ella per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 3.0Greatest1901–27
- 1.7Silent1928–45
- 0.6Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.1Millennials1981–96
- 3.4Gen Z1997–12
- 4.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 62,141 babies, 3.04 per 1,000. Silent: 34,842 babies, 1.69 per 1,000. Boomers: 20,530 babies, 0.57 per 1,000. Gen X: 4,195 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,356 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen Z: 98,165 babies, 3.38 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 89,253 babies, 4.39 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
A 19th-century shortening of Eleanor or Ellen, later also used for any name ending in -ella, such as Gabriella or Daniella. Similar abbreviations have been formed independently in many European languages, for any name containing the syllable -el-, e.g. Elisabeth.
- A female given name.
- A diminutive of the female given names Eleanor, Ellen, Gabriella, and Daniella.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈɛl.ə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Ella, CC BY-SA 4.0.