Ella
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Ella
Ella is a sweet, simple name that owes much of its current popularity to the popularity of other names, from Emma to Bella to Emily to Ellie.
Ella is one of those names that has ranked in the US Top 1000 nearly every year since the records began in the late 19th-century. While it did fall out of fashion in the mid-1980s, it shot back up the charts in the 90s, and, as of 2023, it had been a Top 50 choice for two decades.
Easy to say and spell, Ella, like Finn, Liam, Leo, and Emma, is an international favorite, making the Top 100 throughout the Anglophone world as well as in a range of French and German-speaking, Scandinavian, and Eastern European countries.
Which makes sense for a name with parallel derivations in several different languages and cultures. Ella is the Norman variation of the Germanic Alia—itself a nickname for names containing the element ali. In English speaking countries and Scandinavia, Ella developed as a diminutive for names beginning with El-, such as Eleanor and Elizabeth. Ella is also a Hebrew name, referring to a tree in the pistachio family or in modern Hebrew, "goddess."
Ella can also be a short form of names that begin with El, such as Eleanor and Elizabeth, as well as those that end with -ella, from Gabriella to Luella to Rafaella. And it can be one of the many routes to the super-popular nickname Ellie.
Ella has long been a favorite celebrity baby name, chosen by several stars for their now-mostly-grown daughters by John Travolta, Warren Beatty, Ben Stiller, Eric Clapton, Jeff Gordon, Ioan Gruffudd, Alex Rodriguez, and Mark Wahlberg.
Iconic singer Ella Fitzgerald adds a jazzy edge. And Ella Enchanted gave the name some princess-y pop.
Ella is also given to boys.
Pronounced EL-a.
As of October 2026, Ella ranked #29 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #12 in 2011, Nameberry popularity #89.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #17 | 8,568 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #18 | 7,917 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #17 | 7,939 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #16 | 8,083 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #15 | 8,126 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #13 | 8,127 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #15 | 7,367 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #16 | 7,037 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #25 | 6,284 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #32 | 5,659 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #30 | 5,685 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #29 | 5,831 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Ella on lists
Famous Ellas
- Ella Jane FitzgeraldGirl
American jazz singer
- Ella Wheeler WilcoxGirl
American author
- Ella Josephine BakerGirl
American civil rights leader
- Ella EyreGirl
British singer
- Ella Marija Lani YelichGirl
O'Connor, birth name of Lorde, New Zealand singer
- Ella Rae PeckGirl
American actress
- Ella PurnellGirl
American actress
- Ella GrassoGirl
American politician; 83rd governor of Connecticut
- Gabriella Michelle "Ella" HendersonGirl
English singer,songwriter
- Ella ThomasGirl
Eritrean,American model
- Ella Wallace RainesGirl
American actress
- Ella AstvatsatrynaGirl
Armenian rhythmic gymnast
- Ella HillerGirl
American actress
- Ella Dane MorganGirl
American actress
- Ella ChenGirl
Taiwanese pop singer of group S.H.E.
- Ella Koon (YunGirl
na), Chinese pop singer, actress and model
- Ella JenkinsGirl
American folk singer
- Ella PolischeckGirl
American model & actress
- Ella Grayce ResnickGirl
American actress
- Ella Joyce (born Cherron Hoye)Girl
American actress
- Ella WattsGirl
Gorman, American actress
- Ella HooperGirl
Australian singer
- Ella Copple Masar McLeodGirl
American,Canadian soccer player
- Ella Craig (b. 1993)Girl
daughter of actor Daniel Craig
- Ella Corrinne Beatty (2000)Girl
daughter of actors Warren Beatty & Annette Bening
- Ella Bleu Travolta (2000)Girl
daughter of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston
- Ella Hewitt (b. 2001)Girl
daughter of actress Moira Kelly and Steve Hewitt
- Ella Olivia Stiller (2002)Girl
daughter of actors Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor
- Ella May Clapton (b. 2003)Girl
daughter of musician Eric Clapton
- Ella Rae Wahlberg (2003)Girl
daughter of actor Mark Wahlberg and Rhea Durham
- Ella Bailey Saucedo (2004)Girl
daughter of actors Rebecca Herbst & Michael Saucedo
- EllaGirl
Blu Jeffery (b. 2004), daughter of actors Aaron Jeffery and Zoe Naylor
- Ella Willis (b. 2004)Girl
daughter of TV personality Steve "Commando" Willis
- Ella Graves (b. 2005)Girl
daughter of actor Rupert Graves
- Ella Dixon (b. 2005)Girl
daughter of actress Jennifer Beals and Ken Dixon
- Ella Rose Gaines (b. 2006)Girl
daughter of reality stars Chip and Joanna Gaines
- Ella Sofia Gordon (2007)Girl
daughter of driver Jeff Gordon & Ingrid Vandebosch
- Ella Alexander Rodriguez (2008)Girl
daughter of baseball player Alex Rodriguez
- Ella Fair (b. 2008)Girl
daughter of singer Stefanie Ridel and Ron Fair
- Ella Betsi Gruffudd (2009)Girl
daughter of actors Alice Evans & Ioan Gruffudd
- Ella Kole Moore (2010)Girl
daughter of singer Justin Moore
- Ella Bisbal Tablada (b.2010)Girl
daughter of singer David Bisbal
- Ella Rose Dobson (b. 2014)Girl
daughter of singers Ritchie Neville and Natasha Hamilton
- EllaGirl
Loren James (b. 2016), daughter of actors Tika Sumpter and Nick James
- Ella Grace Hartwell (b. 2017)Girl
daughter of actress Keshia Knight,Pulliam and NFL player Edgerton Hartwell
- Ella Rose Brown (b. 2017)Girl
daughter of American singer and actress Laura Benanti
- Ella Clooney (b. 2017)Girl
daughter of actor George and Amal Clooney; twin of brother Alexander
- Ella Jack Silverman (b. 2017)Girl
daughter of Jonathan Silverman and Jennifer Finnigan.
- Ella PurnellGirl
English actress
Ella in pop culture
- Ella of FrellGirl
main character in Gail Carson Levine's "Ella Enchanted"
- Ella Minnow PeaGirl
main character in Mark Dunn’s “Ella Minnow Pea”
- Ella DunhamGirl
character on TV's 'Fringe'
- Ella HartGirl
character on British soap "Emmerdale"
- Ella the harpyGirl
character in Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus series
- Ella MontgomeryGirl
character in the Pretty Little Liars series
- EllaGirl
real name of Cinderella in some versions of the fairy tale
- Ella the ElephantGirl
animated TV series
- EllaGirl
a character in the 'Total Drama' animated series
- Ella DanielsGirl
character in the Ella and Micha series by Jessica Sorensen
- Ella MartinezGirl
character in the Maximum Ride series
- Ella FrancisGirl
character in the Virals series by Kathy and Brendon Reichs
- EllaGirl
character in 'Ways to Live Forever' by Sally Nicholls
- Ella MossGirl
clothing brand
- Ella's KitchenGirl
baby food company
- Ella Quiere CualtoGirl
song by Joswa in Da House
- Ella Y YoGirl
song by Don Omar featuring Romeo
- EllaGirl
contraceptive pill
- Ella Lorena KennedyGirl
daughter of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind
- Ella LopezGirl
character on the TV series "Lucifer"
- Ella MalikovaGirl
character in the "Illuminae Trilogy" by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- Ella HerondaleGirl
Will Herondale's sister in the "Infernal Devices" by Cassandra Clare