Ella

A female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “all.”.

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In Greek mythology, Ella (Greek: Ἕλλα) was the daughter of Athamas and Nephele. The name may be a cognate with Hellas (Greek: Ἑλλάς), the Greek name for Greece, which said to have been originally the name of the region round Dodona.
Another source indicates the name is a Norman version of the Germanic short name Alia, which was short for a variety of German names with the element ali-, meaning "other." It is also a common short name for names starting with El-, such as Eleanor, Elizabeth, Elle, Ellen, Ellie, or Eloise.
The Hebrew Ella (אלה) has two meanings:
1) A tree indigenous to the middle east from the pistachio family (Pistacia terebinthus). As written in Isaiah 6-13: "And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land."
2) Ella means "goddess" in modern Hebrew.
Ella became used again during the Victorian era in English-speaking countries and has been revived in the last decade, becoming a popular given name for baby girls born in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States and other English-speaking countries
, as well as in Israel. One well-known bearer of the name was singer Ella Fitzgerald. Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, a Russian grand duchess and saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, was commonly also known as Ella.

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Fem. proper name, when not a diminutive of Eleanor it is from Old High German Alia, from al "all."

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Torch, bright light.

Lea, Elizabeth, Alla, Elsa, Bella, Elle, Eleanor, Ellie, Ellen, Kalle, Adell, Allie

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Ella Fitzgerald	1917	American jazz singer
2	Ella Purnell	1996	British actress
3	Ella Henderson	1996	British singer
4	Ella Eyre	1994	British singer-songwriter
5	Ella Anderson	2005	American child actress
6	Ella Cruz	1996	Filipino actress
7	Ella Baker	1903	African-American civil rights and human rights activist
8	Ella Raines	1920	American actress
9	Ella Edmondson	1986	English singer-songwriter
10	Ella Chen	1981	Taiwanese actress-singer
11	Ella Leyers	1988	Belgian actress
12	Ella Ballentine	2001	Actress
13	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	1850	American author and poet
14	Ella Joyce	1954	American actress
15	Ella Harper	1873	American circus performer
16	Ella Thomas	1981	American actress, model, producer
17	Ella Hooper	1983	Australian singer
18	Ella Rae Peck	1990	American actress
19	Ella Scott Lynch	1982	Australian actress
20	Ella Kenion	1969	British actress
21	Ella Masar	1986	Association footballer
22	Ella	1966	Malaysian rock musician
23	Ella T. Grasso	1919	83rd Governor of Connecticut
24	Ella Woodward	1992	British blogger
25	Ella van Heemstra	1900	Dutch noble
26	Ella Koon	1979	Hong Kong singer
27	Ella Smith	1983	Welsh actress
28	Ella Mitchell	1937	American actress
29	Ella German	1937	Lee Harvey Oswald girlfriend
30	Ella Mae Morse	1924	American popular music singer
31	Ella Guevara	1998	Filipino actress
32	Ella Ewing	1872	Tallest female of her era
33	Ella Little-Collins	1914	American activist
34	Ella Rumpf	1995
35	Ella Dvornik	1990	Croatian singer
36	Ella Mai
37	Ella Nelson	1994
38	Ella Shohat	1959	Cultural studies researcher and lecturer in New York, originally from Israel
39	Ella Jenkins	1924	American folk singer
40	Ella O'Neill	1857	Mother of playwright Eugene O'Neill
41	Ella Bully-Cummings	1958	American chief of police
42	Ella Maillart	1903	Swiss alpine skier
43	Ella Kanninen	1974	Finnish journalist
44	Ella May Saison		Filipino singer
45	Krishna Ella	1948	Businessperson
46	Glen Ella	1959	Australian rugby union player
47	Ella Snoep	1927	Dutch actress
48	Ella Lingens	1908	Righteous Among the Nations
49	Ella Hart
50	Ella Logan	1913	British actor and singer
51	Ella Guru	1966	American painter and musician living in London
52	Ella McSweeney	1978	Irish broadcaster
53	Ella Cara Deloria	1889	Yankton Dakota Author
54	Ella Young	1867	Irish-American writer
55	Steve Ella	1960	Australian rugby league player
56	Ella P. Stewart	1893	American pharmacist
57	Ella Pamfilova	1953	Russian politician
58	Ella Reeve Bloor	1862	American labor organizer
59	Ella Waldek	1929	American professional wrestler
60	Ella Mae Lentz		American actress and writer
61	Ella Frey	2004	German actress
62	Ella Brennan	1925	American restaurateur
63	Ella Winter	1888	British journalist
64	Ella Shields	1879	Music hall, male impersonator
65	Ella Hickson	1985	British writer
66	Ella Johnson	1919	American jazz and rhythm and blues vocalist
67	Ella Flagg Young	1845	American suffraget
68	Ella Büchi	1929	Swiss stage actor (1929-1999)
69	Ella Payne
70	Ella Pyhältö	1976	Finnish stage actor
71	Ella Mae Wiggins	1900	American labor unionist
72	Ella Lemhagen	1965	Film director
73	Ella Némethy	1895
74	Ella Hepworth Dixon	1855	British writer
75	Ella Taylor		American film critic
76	Ella Adayevskaya	1846	Russian classical pianist
77	Ella D'Arcy	1857	British short story writer
78	Ella Vogelaar	1949	Dutch politician, trade unionist and social worker
79	Ella Bergmann-Michel	1896	German photographer and film producer
80	Ella Cora Hind	1861	Canadian journalist
81	Ella Orr Campbell	1910	New Zealander botanist (1910-2003)
82	Ella Washington		American singer
83	Ella van Drumpt	1957	Dutch actress
84	Ella Mae Johnson	1904	American writer
85	Ella Freeman Sharpe	1875	British teacher & psycholanalyst
86	Armand Ken Ella	1993	Cameroonian footballer
87	Ella Pardy	1990
88	Ella Hill Hutch	1924	San Francisco Supervisor
89	Ella Lahtinen	1982
90	Ella A. Boole	1858	American activist
91	Ella Hall	1896	Actress
92	Ella Nicholas	1990	Canoe slalom racer
93	Ella Leya		American singer
94	Ella Naper	1886	British artist
95	Ella Schuler	1897	American supercentenarian
96	Ella Du Cane	1874	British artist
97	Ella Catliff	1991	Model and blogger
98	Ella Clark	1992	British basketball player
99	Ella Dee
100	Ella Trebe	1902
101	Ella Kovacs	1964	Athletics competitor
102	Ella Endlich	1984	German singer
103	Ella Zeller	1933	Romanian table tennis player
104	Ella Wesner	1851	Male impersonator
105	Ella Gaines Yates	1927	American librarian
106	Ella Kay	1895	German politician
107	Ella Gunson	1989	Olympic field hockey player
108	Ella Milch-Sheriff	1954	Israeli composer
109	Ella E. McBride	1862	American photographer
110	Ella Cheever Thayer	1849	American writer
111	Ella Diehl	1978	Badminton player
112	Ella Koblo Gulama	1921	Sierra Leonean politician
113	Ella Alanko	1990	Finnish floorball player
114	Ella Trout	1896	British sea rescuer
115	Ella Sophia Armitage	1841	English historian
116	Ella Leffland	1931	Novelist, short story writer
117	Ella Halman	1906	British opera singer and actress
118	Ella Nollová	1889	Czech actress
119	Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer	1873	American artist
120	Ella Wilks	1985	New Zealand actress
121	Ella Heide	1871	Danish painter
122	Ella Leivo	1994	Finnish tennis player
123	Ella Holm Bull	1929	Norwegian teacher, writer and politician
124	Ella Higginson	1861	American poet
125	Ella Stack	1929
126	Ella Webb	1877	Paediatrician
127	Ella Mastrantonio	1992	Association footballer
128	Ella Amitay Sadovsky		Israeli artist and painter
129	Ella Dunbar Temple Aguilar	1918
130	Ella Baff		American dancer
131	Isabella Christie	1861	Scottish traveller and gardener
132	Ella Briggs	1880	Austrian architect
133	Ella Schadd-de Boer	1949	Dutch politician
134	Ella Graham Agnew	1871
135	Ella Spira		British composer
136	John Ella	1802	British musician
137	Ella Tripp	1976	Badminton player
138	Ella Mary Edghill	1881	British translator
139	Ella Lyman Cabot	1866	American academic
140	Ella Kalsbeek	1955	Dutch politician
141	Ella Pontefract	1896	Author of the social history of the Yorkshire Dales
142	Ella Kamanya	1961	Namibian politician and businesswoman
143	Gary Ella	1960	Australian rugby union player
144	Erez Ella	1970	Israeli architect
145	Ella Weed	1853	American educator
146	Ella Danz	2000	German writer
147	Ella Anker	1870	Norwegian journalist
148	Ella Carina Werner	1979	German writer
149	Ella J. Knowles Haskell	1860	American lawyer
150	Ella Matteucci
151	Ella Mary Leather	1876	English collector of folklore and songs
152	Ella Fontanals-Cisneros
153	Ella Bohlin	1979	Swedish politician
154	Ella Barowsky	1912	German politician and archivist
155	Ella Gudrun Ingeborg Holleufer	1906	Danish first lady
156	Mark Ella	1970	German politician
157	Ella Sterling Mighels	1853	Writer and historian
158	Ella Littwitz		Israeli photographer and artist
159	Ella Van Hueson
160	Ella Vanhanen	1993	Association football player
161	Ella Maria Bisschop-Larsen	1951
162	Ella Mahammitt	1863
163	Ella Eastin
164	Ella Germein	1990	Australian television presenter and musician
165	Ella Hamid
166	Ella von der Haide	1974	German artist
167	Ella Graubart	1896	American lawyer
168	Ella Hval	1904	Norwegian actress
169	Ella Macknight
170	Ella Bogdanova	1996	Ukrainian gymnast
171	Ella Negruzzi	1876	Romanian lawyer (1876-1949)
172	Ella Tengbom-Velander	1921	Swedish politician
173	Ella Fry	1916	Artist and musician
174	Ella Polyakova	1941	Human rights activist
175	Ella Gai	1985
176	Ella Kivikoski	1901	Finnish archaeologist
177	Ella Gombaszögi	1898	Hungarian actress
178	Ella Ehni	1875	German politician
179	Ella Mensch	1859	German journalist
180	Ella Simms
181	Ella Gjømle	1979	Cross country skier from Stathelle, Bamble, Norway
182	Ella Donnison	1975	Cricketer
183	Ella Conradty	1889
184	Ella Pancera	1876	Austrian pianist
185	Ella Grundel	1994
186	Ella Jaroszewicz		French choreographer
187	Ella Blixt	1983
188	Ella Suitiala	1989	Finnish snowboarder
189	Ella Nyström	1950
190	Ella Ferris Pell
191	Ella Mätik	1904
192	Ella Eklund	1894	Swedish diver
193	Ella Boyce Kirk		American superintendent of schools
194	Ella Grødem	1977
195	Ella Wilcke	1896
196	Ella Scoble Opperman	1873	American pianist and music educator
197	Ella Ehlers	1904
198	Ella Farman		American writer of children's literature
199	Ella King Newsom
200	Ella Wiebe	1978	German footballer