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Baby name
Ella
Girl
Origin of the name
Ella spread in English at the beginning of the 20th century. The singer Ella Fitzgerald made it famous.
Comeback name
351,313births since 1880
2010sgeneration
No. 13rank at its peak, in 2010
Where babies named Ella are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Ella is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Ella is most common in Mississippi (2 times), South Carolina (1.9) and Alabama (1.7), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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