Rella
Rella is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 575th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192126 births
- Best rank
- #575in 1881
- Since 1880
- 1,313people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,313 girls have been named Rella in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 26 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 26 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Rella | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 69 | |
| 1890s | 115 | |
| 1900s | 100 | |
| 1910s | 179 | |
| 1920s | 236 | |
| 1930s | 191 | |
| 1940s | 151 | |
| 1950s | 120 | |
| 1960s | 46 | |
| 1970s | 6 | |
| 1980s | 11 | |
| 1990s | 5 | |
| 2000s | 6 | |
| 2010s | 48 | |
| 2020s | 30 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Rella was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Rella
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Annerpeak 1920
- Tempiepeak 1918
- Diciepeak 1920
- Florapeak 1920
- Leliapeak 1919
- Dellapeak 1917
- Almirapeak 1917
- Malvinapeak 1917
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.