Ella

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Feminine form of Elie; from Hebrew, meaning ‘my master is God’

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɛlə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ella is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 398(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 672
  • USUnited States1 in 1.8K

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 Ella 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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈410,000 people, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
478 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 363 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

EllaLatin(measured from records)
ელაGeorgian(measured from records)
ЭлаCyrillic(measured from records)
ΈλαGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled 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)

Feminine form of Elie; from Hebrew, meaning ‘my master is God’.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ella 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.

Where Ella is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈410,000 est.≈1 in 3.4K—Ella41
US United States#570185,5351 in 1.8K185KElla478
TR Türkiye#584≈44,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K2.9KEla74
SE Sweden#29225,6511 in 39826KElla81
PH Philippines#857≈21,000 est.≈1 in 5.1K—Ella124
FI Finland—15,3631 in 36318KElla59
DK Denmark#4548,7371 in 6728.7KElla88
NO Norway—7,2341 in 75624KElla50
SI Slovenia—2,860as Ela1 in 7353K—7

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ella is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Sweden, Philippines

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Êllà, Ellä

  • Russian given name51 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Croatian

    Also written Элла, Елла, Эла, Ela, Ёлла

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Èlla, Élla, Ellå, Ėlla

  • Indonesian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Ella, Ëllã, Ëllä, Ellá, Ellã

  • Hindi given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ellà, Èlla, Ĕllä, Ellä

76 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ella is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Short form of names like Eleanor, Ellen, Elisabeth; often linked to Greek or Hebrew roots.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • Short form of erisaBETH, Germanic names beginning with El]-, or GABRIELLA.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Finnish, a female given name, similar to English Ella

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, Ella är ursprungligen en smekform till namn som → Eleonora, → Elisabeth, → Ellen, → Gabriella. Namnet har varit ett av de populäraste tilltalsnamnen under de senaste årtiondena. En känd namnbärare var den amerikanska jazzsångerskan Ella Fitzgerald (1917–96). I den rikssvenska almanackan 19 februari och i den finlandssvenska 10 feb ruari.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Ella Wheeler Wilcox, b. 1850Mary Roberts Rinehart, b. 1876Babe Didrikson Zaharias, b. 1911Ella Fitzgerald, b. 1917Ella Pamfilova, b. 1953Ella Henderson, b. 1996Ella Purnell, b. 1996Lorde, b. 1996Ella Balinska, b. 1996Ella Bleu Travolta, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Ella,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 138 sources across 75 countries.

Official registers attesting Ella
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020185K#299
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—26K#169
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—24K#188
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—18K#134
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202016K—
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—15K—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—8.7K#80
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20257.2K—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20255.8K—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—468#628
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025441#321
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present)2024437#2

Reference works 8

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What are other forms of the name Ella?
In the etymology graph, Lisa, Betty and Beth are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Elnora and Elsabeth.
Is Ella a male or female name?
Ella is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ella mean, and where does it come from?
Feminine form of Elie; from Hebrew, meaning ‘my master is God’. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
In which country does Ella have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 406 thousand people named Ella in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ella.
Where is Ella most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ella is densest in Finland — about 1 in 363 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ella?
In the United States, the national register counted 185,535 people named Ella in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
How common is Ella compared with other names?
In Sweden, Ella is the 292nd most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
How do you pronounce Ella?
A machine transcription gives /ɛlə/ (IPA) for English.

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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, “Ella” — the 292nd most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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