Élla
surname · Latin script
Élla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Originally a diminutive form of Elina, Elisabet, etc.
- FIFinland1 in 363(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 398
- DKDenmark1 in 672
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Élla itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 478 (measured from records)
- 1 in 363 (inferred from the name graph)
185,535 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ella in US United States, PH Philippines, SE Sweden and 4 more and Ela in TR Türkiye.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Originally a diminutive form of Elina, Elisabet, etc.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Élla counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #570 | 185,535 | 1 in 1.8K | 185K | Ella | 478 |
| TR Türkiye | #584 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 2.9K | Ela | 74 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Ella | 50 |
| PH Philippines | #857 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Ella | 124 |
| SE Sweden | #292 | 25,651 | 1 in 398 | 26K | Ella | 81 |
| FI Finland | — | 15,363 | 1 in 363 | 18K | Ella | 59 |
| DK Denmark | #454 | 8,737 | 1 in 672 | 8.7K | Ella | 88 |
| NO Norway | — | 7,234 | 1 in 756 | 24K | Ella | 50 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 2,860as Ela | 1 in 735 | 3K | — | 7 |
185,535 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TÜİK NIP — newborn names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Élla is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cim, elbow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Élla mean, and where does it come from?
- Originally a diminutive form of Elina, Elisabet, etc. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Élla have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 186 thousand people named Élla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ella.
- Where is Élla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Élla is densest in Finland — about 1 in 363 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Élla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 185,535 people named Élla in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Élla compared with other names?
- In the United States, Élla is the 570th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A9llaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Élla” — the 570th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.