Ella (name)

Ella is a personal name most often used as a feminine given name, but also as a surname, especially in Australia. In Greek mythology, Ella (Ancient Greek: Ἕλλα) was the daughter of Athamas and Nephele.^[1] The name may be a cognate with Hellas (Ἑλλάς), the Greek name for Greece, which is said to have originally been the name of the region around Dodona.^[2]

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Ella
Pronunciation	/ˈɛlə/ EL-ə
Gender	Female
Origin
Language(s)	Greek, Norman, Hebrew
Meaning	beautiful, fairy Maiden, Goddess
Other names
Related names	Elah, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Elle, Ellen, Ellie, Alla, Ellika, Ellit, Illy, Elat, Illa, Elia, Aelia

Another source indicates that Ella 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'".^[3] It is also a common short name for names starting with El-, such as Eleanor, Elizabeth, Elle, Ellen, Elaine, Ellie, or Eloise.

The Hebrew word Ella (אלה) has two meanings:

A tree indigenous to the Middle East, of 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."
Ella means 'goddess' in modern Hebrew.

In English-speaking countries, Ella was popular during the Victorian era and again became popular in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Elsewhere, the name is popular in County Kerry, Ireland,^[4] and Israel.^[5]

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Ella Aquino (1902–1988), Native American civil rights activist
Ella May Bennett (1855-1932), American Universalist minister
Ella Phillips Crandall (1871–1938), American nurse
Ella Hoag Brockway Avann (1853–1899), American educator, and writer
Ella Baker (1903–1986), African American civil rights and human rights activist
Ella Maria Ballou (1852–1937), American stenographer, reporter, essayist, and educator
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Ella Bennett (2002–2007), American murder victim
Ella A. Bigelow (1849–1917), American author and clubwoman
Ella Thomas Foreacre Brantley (1864–1948), American clubwoman and civic leader
Ella Bully-Cummings (born 1958), first female police chief of Detroit
Ella Chen (born 1981), member of the Taiwanese girl group S.H.E.
Ella Maria Dietz Clymer (1847–1920), American actress and poet
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Ella D. Crawford (1852–1932), American temperance movement organizer
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Ella Cara Deloria (1888–1971), Native American educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist
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Ella Loraine Dorsey (1853–1935), American author, journalist, and translator
Ella Hamilton Durley (1852–1922), American educator, newspaper editor, and journalist
Ella Emhoff (born 1999), American model, artist, designer, and U.S. Second Daughter
Ella Endlich (born 1984), German singer
Ella Eronen (1900–1987), Finnish actress
Ella Eyre (born 1994), English singer
Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996), American jazz singer
Ella Mae Gallavan (1903–1966), American pathologist
Ella M. George (1850–1938), American teacher, lecturer, social reformer
Ella German (born 1937), friend of Lee Harvey Oswald
Ella Gifft (1882–1964), American businesswoman and suffragist
Ella T. Grasso (1919–1981), American politician and first woman elected governor of Connecticut
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Ella Guru (born 1966), American painter and musician
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Ella Havelka (born 1989), ballet dancer and first Indigenous person to join the Australian Ballet
Ella Henderson (born 1996), British singer
Ella Huber (born 2002), American ice hockey player
Ella Hunt (born 1998), British actress
Ella Jenkins (1924–2024), American folk singer
Ella Jones, mayor of Ferguson, Missouri from 2020
Ella Junnila (born 1998), Finnish high jumper
Ella Eaton Kellogg (1853–1920), American philanthropist and pioneer in dietetics
Ella B. Kendrick (1849–1928), American temperance activist
Ella Koon (born 1979), Hong Kong singer
Ella Lloyd (born 2005), Welsh racing driver
Ella Logan (1913–1969), Scottish actress and singer
Ella Mai (born 1994), British singer
Ella Maillart (1903–1997), Swiss adventurer, travel writer, photographer, and sportswoman
Ella M. S. Marble (1850–1929), American journalist, educator, activist, and physician
Ella Morgan (1876–1958), American school librarian
Ella Mae Morse (1924–1999), American singer
Ella Norraikow (1849-1913), Canadian author, metaphysician
Ella Pamfilova (born 1953), Russian politician
Ella Purnell (born 1996), English actress
Ella Raines (1920–1988), American actress
Ella Rubin (born 2001), American actress
Ella Giles Ruddy (1851–1917), American author, editor
Ella Smith (born 1983), English actress
Ella Shields (1879–1952), British music hall singer and male impersonator
Ella May Thornton (1885-1971), American librarian
Ella King Torrey (1957–2003), American scholar, academic administrator
Ella Yelich-O'Connor (born 1996), New Zealand musician, known by her stage name "Lorde"
Ella Young (1867–1956), Irish poet and Celtic mythologist
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919), American poet and author
Ella B. Ensor Wilson (1838–1913), American social reformer and writer

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