Ella

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Ella is ranked 30th among girls in 2024 (5,685 births). Its best rank was 12th, in 2011–2012.

Rank in 2024: #30up 2 from 2023
Births in 2024: 5,6850.35% of girls
Peak year: 20109,883 births
Best rank: #12first in 2011
Since 1880: 345,401people given the name

Babies named Ella, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

345,401 girls have been named Ella in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2010, with 9,883 births — 0.56% of all girls recorded that year.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 17 → 30).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2010s alone account for 25%. It has spent 140 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 72 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Ella
1880s	13,936
1890s	17,072
1900s	14,763
1910s	24,913
1920s	29,520
1930s	19,962
1940s	15,977
1950s	11,037
1960s	5,177
1970s	2,096
1980s	1,575
1990s	3,895
2000s	67,534
2010s	85,912
2020s	32,032

In 2010, its biggest year

Ella was the 13th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2010 were Isabella, Sophia, Emma, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2010.

Names that rose and fell with Ella

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.