Ellah
Ellah was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,686 among girls’ names; 1,034 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Ellah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ellah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ellah?
#4,686 among girls’ names, 2025
Ellah fell from #2,897 in 2015 to #4,686 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 33.6 to 18.0 per million.
73 babies in 2010, the peak
Ellah peaked in 2010, when 73 girls were given it, #2,522 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,686 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,315 | 20.4 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,784 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,988 | 22.6 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,756 | 24.4 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,352 | 28.5 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,566 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,260 | 28.8 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,086 | 20.9 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,667 | 23.7 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 60 | #2,897 | 33.6 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,937 | 32.5 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,593 | 24.5 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,280 | 28.4 |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,317 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 73 | #2,522 | 41.1 |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,760 | 35.4 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,966 | 31.2 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,440 | 25.0 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,017 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,892 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,846 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,134 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,472 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,351 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,033 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ellah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ellah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ellah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ellah, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,034 Americans ever recorded as Ellah. The median Ellah alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 783 people named Ellah (770 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 827 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 486 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 541 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Ellah?
Ellah is a less common spelling of Ella: SSA has recorded 1,034 Ellah and 352,214 Ella since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 544,443 babies since 1880, Ellah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 13,277 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ellah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ellah and names like it
- Compare Ellah and EllaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEllah peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ellah since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Ellah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ellah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.