Ela — #1714 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Ela

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,711 babies named Ela between 1887 and 2024, spanning 138 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ela currently holds the #1714 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 150 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ela performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,152 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Ela shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 304 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Ela in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ela in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,711 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.