Fela — unisex name

What the Data Says About Fela

The Social Security Administration has registered 45 babies named Fela between 1920 and 2021, spanning 102 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Fela currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1972, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Fela is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 2006.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Fela performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 10 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Fela shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Fela 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 45 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.