In 2025, 7 US girls were named Idella, making it the 12,399th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,813 places from #16,212 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 5 girls named Idella in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #335, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 168, in 1921. For comparison, it was #10,414 in 2015 and #1,094 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Idella in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 23 babies. In all, 6,554 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,460 babies named Idella.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 86 US girls were named Idella; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Idola and Eudella are summarised on this page.