Ela

given name · Turkish · Latin script

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

Ela is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ireland it is the 79th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 398◐
  • IEIreland1 in 578
  • DKDenmark1 in 672

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈266K ●

across 12 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
423 ●

956K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 363 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

EllaLatin · English●883K records
ᲔლაGeorgian · Georgian●1.3K records
ЭлаCyrillic · Kazakh●26 records
ΈλαGreek · Greek●1 records

Locally spelled Ella in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 17 more and Ელა in GE Georgia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#576185,252612K rec.1 in 1.8K185KElla423
TR Türkiye#590151,699149K rec.—2.9KEla65
AU Australia#197116,07741K rec.—729Ella206
GB United Kingdom#44357,13240K rec.—1.1KElla210
CA Canada#38531,88711K rec.—88Ella146
SE Sweden#30325,651△3.9K rec.1 in 39826KElla69
PH Philippines#88723,34116K rec.——Ella111
DE Germany#62821,61217K rec.—1Ella153
IE Ireland#7916,1441.7K rec.——Ella76
FI Finland—15,363△526 rec.1 in 36318KElla62
AT Austria#20214,553826 rec.—4.4KElla54
FR France—10,620△10 rec.1 in 6.4K11K—9

Roughly 185K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 1.8K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Turkish154K37%
  • English25K6%
  • Spanish24K6%
  • Hindi23K6%
  • Indonesian23K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish153,79237%
English25,2896%
Spanish24,4576%
Hindi23,3326%
Indonesian23,3126%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ela is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name59K records spelled Ela38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, India, Austria

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Elâ, Elae, Elà, Èlá, Éla

  • Spanish given name57K records spelled Ela30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Peru, India, United States

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Éla, Elâ, Ëla, El-A, Élà

  • Hindi given name29K records spelled Ela6 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ëla, Ëlä, Éla, Elã

  • Indonesian given name28K records spelled Ela4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Türkiye, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Ela, Ela'

  • Russian given name22K records spelled Ela60 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Czechia, Croatia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Czech

    Also written Элла, Елла, Ella, Эла, Ела

  • Vietnamese given name20K records spelled Ela4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Vietnam, United States, Türkiye

    Languages: Vietnamese, Khmer

    Also written Ȇĺȁ, Ȇľȁ

  • Arabic given name14K records spelled Ela17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Türkiye, India, Egypt

    Languages: Arabic, Amharic

    Also written El-A, El'A, Èla, Éla, El'Ä

  • Polish given name13K records spelled Ela2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Italy

    Also written Ęla

  • Czech given name12K records spelled Ela7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Spain, India

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Ėla, Ělã, Elã, Elá, Eľa

40 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●

Ela 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 Turkish, Of hazel color.

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

  • In English, highest note; Guido 's note

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Oak or Terebinth

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von Namen, die mit »El-« beginnen, besonders von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In lua, to cast, throw, pitch, blow (any wind instrument).

    as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language

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.

Over time●

050100150190019502000150 · 2018

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Ela in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1887–2025
Yearrecords
18875
18887
18897
18916
18925
18935
18967
18979
189813
18995
19007
19016
19029
190314
19046
19056
19067
19097
19117
19126
191412
19159
191613
19179
19188
191912
192013
19219
19226
192311
19245
19259
19266
19278
192811
192910
193011
19317
19327
19357
19367
19586
19605
19628
19675
19725
19755
19776
19835
19845
19877
19887
19908
19918
19928
19937
19956
199610
19976
199811
199912
200014
200118
200213
200344
200444
200578
200668
200773
200869
2009100
2010117
2011116
2012117
201398
2014104
201599
2016100
2017115
2018150
2019136
2020119
2021118
202299
2023110
2024118
2025135

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 87 years between 1887–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

100012001400160018002000Ela of Salisbury, 3rd Countess of Salisbury, b. 1187Ela Collins, b. 1786Ela Bhatt, b. 1933Ela Gandhi, b. 1940Ela Tomson, b. 1945Ela Weber, b. 1966Ela Lehotská, b. 1973Ela Paul, b. 1982Ela Armoni, b. 1993Elâ Yörüklü, b. 1998

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 93 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Ela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—3K#180
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — newborn names20252.9K#18
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20252.9K#97
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.8K#5,914
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20242.7K#399
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—2.2K#356
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20212.1K—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211.4K#458
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20241.2K#104
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—1.1K#400
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—887#781
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—785#536

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,011 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ela?
We estimate roughly 266 thousand people bear Ela (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Ela have the most bearers?
We estimate about 185 thousand people bear Ela in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ella.
Where is Ela most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ela is densest in Finland — about 1 in 363 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Ela compared with other names?
In the United States, Ela is the 576th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Ela a male or female name?
Ela 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 Ela mean?
Recorded meaning: ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Ela” — the 576th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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