Ellah
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ellah is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. In Malawi it is the 99th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- PHPhilippines1 in 92K◐
- MWMalawi1 in 984
- ZASouth Africa1 in 42K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈833 ●
- Sources
- 66 ●
- 1 in 249K ◐
across 6 countries
3.9K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | 1,809 | 525 rec. | — | — | Ellah | 31 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 809 | 807 rec. | — | — | Ellah | 14 |
| US United States | — | 770 | 706 rec. | 1 in 432K | 770 | Ellah | 66 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 556 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Ellah | 30 |
| MW Malawi | #99 | 422 | 0 rec. | — | — | Ellah | 5 |
| AU Australia | — | 232 | 187 rec. | — | 3 | Ellah | 45 |
| KE Kenya | — | 231 | 69 rec. | — | — | Ellah | 18 |
| CA Canada | — | 120 | 91 rec. | — | 5 | Ellah | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 102 | 66 rec. | — | 3 | Ellah | 27 |
| SE Sweden | — | 41△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 249K | 41 | — | 3 |
| ZM Zambia | — | 36 | 3 rec. | — | — | Ellah | 7 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 28 | 27 rec. | — | — | Ellah | 7 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English2.5K35%
- Swahili1.4K20%
- Spanish88613%
- Arabic6309%
- Indonesian3164%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 2,466 | 35% |
| Swahili | 1,420 | 20% |
| Spanish | 886 | 13% |
| Arabic | 630 | 9% |
| Indonesian | 316 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 8 |
| 2001 | 9 |
| 2002 | 9 |
| 2003 | 19 |
| 2004 | 27 |
| 2005 | 37 |
| 2006 | 37 |
| 2007 | 48 |
| 2008 | 59 |
| 2009 | 65 |
| 2010 | 73 |
| 2011 | 49 |
| 2012 | 50 |
| 2013 | 43 |
| 2014 | 58 |
| 2015 | 60 |
| 2016 | 42 |
| 2017 | 36 |
| 2018 | 49 |
| 2019 | 43 |
| 2020 | 46 |
| 2021 | 40 |
| 2022 | 37 |
| 2023 | 28 |
| 2024 | 33 |
| 2025 | 29 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 26 years between 2000–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 770 | #14,883 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 73 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 65 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 60 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 59 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 58 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 50 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 49 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 49 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 48 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 46 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 43 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 92 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ellah?
- We estimate roughly 833 people bear Ellah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ellah have the most bearers?
- Ellah is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled ellah.
- How common is Ellah compared with other names?
- In Malawi, Ellah is the 99th most common given name of 2,887 given names recorded there.
- Is Ellah a male or female name?
- Ellah 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.
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About this data
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, “Ellah” — the 99th most common given name in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.