Xela is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Xyla, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Xela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,699 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,699 in 2022; #4,979 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Xela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,979 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #3,699.
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Xela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,699 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 42 (2022).
In 2025, 27 US girls were named Xela, making it the 4,979th most common girls’ name of the year, up 307 places from #5,286 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 25 girls named Xela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,699, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 42. For comparison, it was #10,829 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Xela in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 5 babies. In all, 371 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 170 babies named Xela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 233 US girls were named Xela; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 59,528 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Xyla (2,346 babies since 1880) and Xylah (543 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Xela in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,979 | — | — |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,286 | — | — |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,450 | — | — |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,699 | — | — |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,408 | — | — |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,929 | — | — |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,321 | — | — |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,997 | — | — |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,082 | — | — |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,731 | — | — |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,829 | — | — |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,104 | — | — |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,556 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,394 | — | — |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,107 | — | — |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,874 | — | — |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,049 | — | — |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,778 | — | — |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,538 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,084 | — | — |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,369 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #13,110 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,457 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,812 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,701 | — | — |
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).