Ela

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ela: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ela: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #372 in 2011, and it stood at #431 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#372highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1031
1997	#1543
1998	#995
1999	#1060
2000	#897
2001	#871
2002	#785
2003	#595
2004	#473
2005	#553
2006	#564
2007	#395
2008	#411
2009	#447
2010	#406
2011	#372
2012	#434
2013	#479
2014	#399
2015	#414
2016	#454
2017	#486
2018	#478
2019	#480
2020	#478
2021	#594
2022	#655
2023	#545
2024	#670

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #638 among girls in Scotland, #670 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1031 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #372 among girls in England and Wales, in 2011 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #670 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Ela appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,039 births with the name.

Ela across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ela's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1031 (1996)	#372 (2011)	#670 (2024)	29 of 29	2,039 (1996–2024)	126 (2011)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#663 (2010)	#550 (2011)	#625 (2023)	11 of 14	48 (2010–2023)	7 (2011)

Ela by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ela in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	70	4 of 10	18
2000s	628	10 of 10	63
2010sbusiest	1,007	10 of 10	101
2020s	334	5 of 10	67

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 101 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2006 and 2007, when recorded births rose by 43, from 62 to 105.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ela appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #372 in England and Wales in 2011.

Ela's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#670	57	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#545	71	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#655	57	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#594	65	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#478	84	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#480	86	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#478	90	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#486	90	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#454	96	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#414	107	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#399	109	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#479	88	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#434	106	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#372	126	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#406	109	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#447	93	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#411	104	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#395	105	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#564	62	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#553	60	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#473	73	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#595	49	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#785	32	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#871	26	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#897	24	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1060	19	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#995	21	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1543	11	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1031	19	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#431	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#625	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#560	7	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	7	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#663	5	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #372, first reached in 2011.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 126 births, registered in England and Wales in 2011.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 29 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Elaina · #337, 33y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Alia · #355, 30y
Yara · #328, 30y
Amalia · #300, 33y
Kaya · #294, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Elyse · #372, 30y
Giulia · #372, 30y
Keila · #372, 24y
Maddy · #372, 29y

Ela was ranked #372 in England and Wales · Girls in 2011. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ela and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ela without appearing here.

Ela moved ahead of

Janet Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1543 and #1045 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #995 and #1571.
Kristy Compare
In 2000 they stood at #897 and #876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #871 and #1439.
Suzanne Compare
In 2001 they stood at #871 and #871 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #785 and #1317.
Carol Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1543 and #897 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #995 and #1480.

Moved ahead of Ela

Marianne Compare
In 2012 they stood at #550 and #695 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #894 and #587.
Riley Compare
In 2015 they stood at #414 and #539 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #454 and #301.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #372 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #434 and #284.
Aria Compare
In 2011 they stood at #372 and #615 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #434 and #294.

Moved the opposite way to Ela

Kristin Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Ela went from #1031 to #545 while Kristin went from #1434 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Ela went from #1031 to #545 while Therese went from #2096 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Ela went from #1031 to #545 while Tracey went from #783 to #5687.
Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Ela went from #1031 to #594 while Carol went from #802 to #3519.

Moved the same way as Ela

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ela went from #1543 to #670 and Blake from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ela went from #1543 to #670 and Ezra from #3824 to #1302.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #372 in England and Wales in 2011. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ela

Ela at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ela across 2 official records

Ela by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Ela appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Ela at a glance

Ela across 2 official records

Ela by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Ela appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Ela

Ela and the names beside it

Ela moved ahead of

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