Ela
#1,561 for girls in 2025, 135 births
- Peak · girls
- 1903 · 14 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,846since 1887
Ela over time
Rank among girls' names. Ela has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,561 | 135 |
| 2024 | #1,719 | 118 |
| 2023 | #1,826 | 110 |
| 2022 | #1,974 | 99 |
| 2021 | #1,739 | 118 |
| 2020 | #1,704 | 119 |
| 2019 | #1,569 | 136 |
| 2018 | #1,461 | 150 |
| 2017 | #1,804 | 115 |
| 2016 | #1,986 | 100 |
| 2015 | #1,996 | 99 |
| 2014 | #1,922 | 104 |
| 2013 | #1,990 | 98 |
| 2012 | #1,760 | 117 |
| 2011 | #1,758 | 116 |
| 2010 | #1,762 | 117 |
| 2009 | #2,041 | 100 |
| 2008 | #2,663 | 69 |
| 2007 | #2,541 | 73 |
| 2006 | #2,631 | 68 |
| 2005 | #2,296 | 78 |
| 2004 | #3,391 | 44 |
| 2003 | #3,291 | 44 |
| 2002 | #7,816 | 13 |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
| 1966 | — | |
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| 1963 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 |
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| 1936 | #3,376 | 7 |
| 1935 | #3,431 | 7 |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,568 | 7 |
| 1931 | #3,497 | 7 |
| 1930 | #2,690 | 11 |
| 1929 | #2,921 | 10 |
| 1928 | #2,768 | 11 |
| 1927 | #3,561 | 8 |
| 1926 | #4,306 | 6 |
| 1925 | #3,362 | 9 |
| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 |
| 1923 | #2,917 | 11 |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 |
| 1921 | #3,400 | 9 |
| 1920 | #2,590 | 13 |
| 1919 | #2,640 | 12 |
| 1918 | #3,512 | 8 |
| 1917 | #3,092 | 9 |
| 1916 | #2,368 | 13 |
| 1915 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1914 | #2,009 | 12 |
| 1913 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,634 | 6 |
| 1911 | #1,956 | 7 |
| 1910 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,763 | 7 |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | — | |
| 1906 | #1,553 | 7 |
| 1905 | #1,696 | 6 |
| 1904 | #1,659 | 6 |
| 1903 | #931 | 14 |
| 1902 | #1,219 | 9 |
| 1901 | #1,466 | 6 |
| 1900 | #1,561 | 7 |
| 1899 | #1,596 | 5 |
| 1898 | #963 | 13 |
| 1897 | #1,094 | 9 |
| 1896 | #1,292 | 7 |
| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | — | |
| 1893 | #1,437 | 5 |
| 1892 | #1,450 | 5 |
| 1891 | #1,213 | 6 |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | #1,025 | 7 |
| 1888 | #1,036 | 7 |
| 1887 | #1,147 | 5 |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Ela! It came in at #1,147, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1890, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Ela is popular in 2013
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#551 · 1 in 2,820
- New Jersey#887 · 1 in 5,214
- Virginia#999 · 1 in 6,047
- Washington#1,041 · 1 in 5,964
- New York#1,435 · 1 in 10,140
Best ever in a state: #540 in Connecticut, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #551 | 9 | 1 in 2,820 |
| New Jersey | #887 | 7 | 1 in 5,214 |
| Virginia | #999 | 6 | 1 in 6,047 |
| Washington | #1,041 | 5 | 1 in 5,964 |
| New York | #1,435 | 9 | 1 in 10,140 |
| Texas | #1,982 | 10 | 1 in 16,097 |
| California | #2,150 | 10 | 1 in 20,517 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ela
- 158 spots since 2024 (#1,719 → #1,561)
- 143 spots since 2020 (#1,704 → #1,561)
- 435 spots since 2015 (#1,996 → #1,561)
- Biggest jump: 288 spots in 1903 (#1,219 → #931)
- Biggest drop: 728 spots in 1904 (#931 → #1,659)
- Debuted 1887
- Peaked 1903 at #931 (14 births)
- Births halved by 1904, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1898–1903
- Highest: 1 in 11,340 girls born in 2018 were named Ela (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,906 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #931 in 1903, was only 1 in 18,712 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.5% of all girls named Ela (1,152) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 19 | #1,025 (1889) | #1,069 |
| 1890s | 50 | #963 (1898) | #1,292 |
| 1900s | 62 | #931 (1903) | #1,481 |
| 1910s | 76 | #1,956 (1911) | #2,639 |
| 1920s | 88 | #2,590 (1920) | #3,533 |
| 1930s | 39 | #2,690 (1930) | #3,312 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 6 | #5,408 (1958) | #5,408 |
| 1960s | 18 | #4,865 (1962) | #6,020 |
| 1970s | 16 | #8,292 (1972) | #8,601 |
| 1980s | 24 | #8,778 (1987) | #9,680 |
| 1990s | 76 | #7,716 (1999) | #9,598 |
| 2000s | 521 | #2,041 (2009) | #3,990 |
| 2010s | 1,152 | #1,461 (2018) | #1,801 |
| 2020s | 699 | #1,561 (2025) | #1,754 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ela in 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 17,906 of them was named Ela, which outranked 89.7% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,977Payson99
- #1,977Vianey99
- #1,977Zora99
- #1,990Ela98
- #1,990Braylynn98
- #1,990Brookelyn98
- #1,990Destiney98
- #2,002Adelle97
- #2,002Aniah97
- #2,002Arleth97
Tied with 11 names at #1,990; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.