Lella

Where Lella comes from

The dictionaries list Lella as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #615
    10 babies named Lella — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1941
    Lella Lombardi born
    Italian racing driver, female F1 driver
  5. 1952
    Lella Costa born
    Italian actress, writer and voice actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Lella Lombardi · Italian racing driver, female F1 driver, 1941–1992
  • Lella Costa · Italian actress, writer and voice actress, born 1952
  • Lella Ricci · Italian opera singer, 1850–1871
  • Lella Cuberli · singer, born 1945
  • Lella Secor Florence · Feminist and pioneer of birth control, 1887–1966

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.