Ella

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/ˈɛl.ə/

proper noun

A female given name.

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Meanings

proper nounElla (countable and uncountable, plural Ellas)

plural Ellas

  1. countableuncountableA female given name.

    She was named Ella Lorena, Ella for her grandmother Ellen, and Lorena because it was the most fashionable name of the day for girls […]

    1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter XLII, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC
  2. countableuncountableA diminutive of the female given names Eleanor, Ellen, Gabriella, and Daniella.
  3. A placename:
    1. countableuncountableA town in Uva Province, Sri Lanka.
    2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States.
    3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Morrow County, Oregon, United States.
    4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States.
    5. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in the town of Frankfort, Pepin County, Wisconsin.

Origin

A 19th-century shortening of Eleanor or Ellen, later also used for any name ending in -ella, such as Gabriella or Daniella. Similar abbreviations have been formed independently in many European languages, for any name containing the syllable -el-, e.g. Elisabeth.

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Translations

Danish Ella
  • Ellafemale given name
Finnish Ella
  • Ellafemale given name
German Ella
  • Ellafemale given name
Hebrew אֵלָה
  • אֵלָה (éla)female given name
Hungarian Ella
  • Ellafemale given name
Norwegian Ella
  • Ellafemale given name
Swedish Ella
  • Ellafemale given name

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with Ella

VenezuelaumbrellaBellasalmonellamozzarellafellahellarubellaGabriellanovellaCoachellavaricellashigellapaellachlorellacandelabrucellanigellaAdelacitronellacellaklebsiellatarantellacastella
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Anagrams

lealLela
Cite this entry
APA

Ella. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ella

MLA

“Ella.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ella. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Ella,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ella.

Source: Ella on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.