Name: Ella
Gender: Female
Usage: Ella is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Ella are in general originating from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Ella across the world, see Ellen.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Ella is: Torch, She.
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Numerology of the first name Ella: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 3. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: expressive, imaginative, sociable, jovial, positive, optimistic, artistic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Creative, Light-Hearted
Ruling planet: Jupiter
Colors: Purple, Lilac, Mauve
Gemstones: Amethyst
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The name Ella is ranked on the 921st position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 590000 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.009% of the population. The name Ella has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Ella for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Ella is 1 February.
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History and Origin
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, Pistacia Terebinth, from the pistaccio family. 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. 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 known as Ella.
English: of Germanic origin, introduced to Britain by the Normans. The name was probably originally a short form of any of various compound names containing the element ali other, foreign (cf. Eleanor and Elvira). It is now often taken to be a variant or pet form of Ellen.
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