girls:
339.6k births since 1880
#108 (98th percentile)
boys:
900 births since 1883
#3689 (20th percentile)
overall:
340.5k births since 1880
#213 (97th percentile)
The name Ella is the #213 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 340,535 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #108 (98.1% percentile) for all time with 339,635 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,689 (19.5% percentile) for all time with 900 births since 1883.
Ella has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1883 for boys).
The name Ella has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ella reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 98.8% percentile (ranked #12) with 4,952 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 11,844 births per million (ranked 94.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ella ranks #31 for girls (96.8% percentile) with 3,226 births per million, which is 27.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ella reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #500) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 83 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ella ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 3.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ella".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Ella. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Ella is pronounced as EH-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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