Meaning not yet researched.
Ela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 135 in 2025. Its best rank was #942 in 1903.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #942 in 1903; #1,562 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,562 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1903, at #942.
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Ela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 135 girls in 2025. Peak: #942 in 1903 · most girls in one year: 150 (2018).
In 2025, 135 US girls were named Ela, making it the 1,562nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 161 places from #1,723 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 118 girls named Ela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #942, reached in 1903. The most girls given the name in a single year was 150, in 2018. For comparison, it was #2,000 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ela in 87 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1887 with 5 babies. In all, 2,846 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,152 babies named Ela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,200 US girls were named Ela; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 150. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,906 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ela ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #558 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ella (352,214 babies since 1880), Eula (47,491 babies since 1880), Elia (10,159 babies since 1880) and Ila (25,120 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Elka and Elahi are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Polish and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Elka (725), Elahi (118).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ela in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 5 | #558 | — |
| Florida | 23 | #721 | #1,692 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #792 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #866 | #1,506 |
| New York | 14 | #1,043 | #1,161 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,227 | #628 |
| California | 17 | #1,376 | #2,070 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,452 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,463 | #2,092 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 135 | #1,562 | — | — |
| 2024 | 118 | #1,723 | — | — |
| 2023 | 110 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 2022 | 99 | #1,977 | — | — |
| 2021 | 118 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 2020 | 119 | #1,706 | — | — |
| 2019 | 136 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 2018 | 150 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 2017 | 115 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 2016 | 100 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 2015 | 99 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 2014 | 104 | #1,928 | — | — |
| 2013 | 98 | #1,993 | — | — |
| 2012 | 117 | #1,764 | — | — |
| 2011 | 116 | #1,759 | — | — |
| 2010 | 117 | #1,764 | — | — |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,668 | — | — |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,546 | — | — |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,644 | — | — |
| 2005 | 78 | #2,301 | — | — |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,410 | — | — |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,310 | — | — |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,962 | — | — |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,148 | — | — |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,278 | — | — |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,868 | — | — |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,161 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,555 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,341 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,220 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,917 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,744 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,581 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,515 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,543 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,051 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,879 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,745 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,747 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,478 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,626 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,070 | — | — |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,984 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,630 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,605 | — | — |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,468 | — | — |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,503 | — | — |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,671 | — | — |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,586 | — | — |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,738 | — | — |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,985 | — | — |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,635 | — | — |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,454 | — | — |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,449 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,286 | — | — |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,977 | — | — |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,602 | — | — |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,484 | — | — |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,628 | — | — |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,693 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,597 | — | — |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,162 | — | — |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,405 | — | — |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,963 | — | — |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,728 | — | — |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,021 | — | — |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,816 | — | — |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,715 | — | — |
| 1903 | 14 | #942 | — | — |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,535 | — | — |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,617 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1898 | 13 | #976 | — | — |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,187 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).