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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]
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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People with the given name
- Ella Adayevskaya, Russian classical pianist
- Ella Graham Agnew (1871–1958), American educator and social worker
- Ella Airlie, Australian singer and composer
- Ella Al-Shamahi, British science communicator
- Ella Anderson (born 2005), American child actress
- Ella Anker (1870–1958), Norwegian journalist
- Ella Aquino (1902–1988), Native American civil rights activist
- Ella Sophia Armitage (1841–1931), English historian and archaeologist
- Ella Atherton (1905–1995), Scottish-born actress
- Ella Blaylock Atherton (1860–1933), British-American physician
- Ella Atkins, American aerospace engineer
- Ella Auerbach (1900–1999), German-born American lawyer
- Ella Augusta (born 2005), Danish singer
- Ella Hoag Brockway Avann (1853–1899), American educator and writer
- Ella Mae Backus (1863–1938), American lawyer
- Ella Baff, American art director
- Ella Baker (1903–1986), African American civil rights and human rights activist
- Ella Balinska (born 1996), English actress
- Ella Ballentine (born 2001), Canadian actress
- Ella Maria Ballou (1852–1937), American stenographer, reporter, essayist, and educator
- Ella Barnwell (born 2001), British and Welsh cyclist
- Ella D. Barrier (c. 1852–1945), American educator and clubwoman
- Ella Jay Basco, American actress
- Ella Beatty (born 2000), American actress
- Ella Beere (born 1998), Australian canoeist
- Ella Bennett (2002–2007), American murder victim
- Ella May Bennett (1855-1932), American Universalist minister
- Ella Bergmann-Michel (1896–1971), German abstract artist, photographer and documentary filmmaker
- Ella A. Bigelow (1849–1917), American author and clubwoman
- Ella Billing (1869–1921), Swedish women’s rights activist and suffragist
- Ella Reeve Bloor (1862–1951), American labor organizer and long-time activist
- Ella Blumenthal (born 1921), Polish holocaust survivor
- Ella Bohdanova (born 1996), Ukrainian acrobatic gymnast
- Ella Bohlin (born 1979), Swedish politician
- Ella A. Boole (1858–1952), American temperance leader
- Ella F. Boyd, American educator and geologist
- Ella J. Bradley-Hughley, American opera singer
- Ella Bradna (1879–1957), Bohemian-born equestrian circus performer
- Ella Frances Braman(1850–?), American lawyer
- Ella Bramwell (born 1999), Australian rower
- Ella Thomas Foreacre Brantley (1864–1948), American clubwoman and civic leader
- Ella Brennan (1925–2018), American restaurateur
- Ella Briggs (1880–1977), Austrian architect
- Ella Hyatt Brown (born 1997), New Zealand field hockey player
- Ella Bruccoleri, British actress
- Ella Buchanan (1867–1951), American sculptor
- Ella Bucio (born 1997), Mexican traceur
- Ella Bully-Cummings (born 1958), first female police chief of Detroit
- Ella Lyman Cabot (1866–1934), American philosopher
- Ella Campbell (1910–2003), New Zealand botanist and bryologist
- Ella Carmichael (1870–1928), Scottish editor and scholar
- Ella Kaiser Carruth (1881–1974), American librarian and writer
- Ella Stuart Carson, American screenwriter
- Ella Castelhun (1868–1961), American architect
- Ella Catliff (born 1991), English model and blogger
- Ella Chafee (1945–2019), American athlete
- Ella Chandler (born 2000), English cricketer
- Ella Chen (born 1981), member of the Taiwanese girl group S.H.E.
- Ella Christie (1861–1949), Scottish traveler and gardener
- Ella Rodman Church (1831–1912), American writer
- Ella Claridge (born 2002), English-American cricketer
- Ella Clark (born 1992), British basketball and netball player
- Ella E. Clark, American writer
- Ella Maria Dietz Clymer (1847–1920), American actress and poet
- Ella Mary Collin (1903–1973), metallurgist and educationist
- Ella Connolly (born 2000), Australian sprinter
- Ella Cooke (died 1917), New Zealand nurse
- Ella Corfield (nee Caird), British pharmacist
- Ella Phillips Crandall (1871–1938), American nurse
- Ella D. Crawford (1852–1932), American temperance movement organizer
- Ella Cruz (born 1996), Filipina actress, product endorser, host, commercial & promotional model, and dancer
- Ella Rose Curtois (1860–1944), British artist
- Ella Daish, British environmental activist
- Ella Dederick (born 1996), American professional soccer player
- Ella Cara Deloria (1888–1971), Native American educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist
- Ella Diehl (born 1978), badminton player
- Ella Dietz (1847–1920), American poet
- Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857–1932), English writer, novelist, and editor
- Ella Donnison (born 1975), English cricketer
- Ella Donovan, British communist activist
- Ella Loraine Dorsey (1853–1935), American author, journalist, and translator
- Ella Du Cane (1874–1943), British artist
- Ella Hamilton Durley (1852–1922), American educator, newspaper editor, and journalist
- Ella Eastin (born 1997), American swimmer
- Ella Mary Edghill (1881–?), British translator and teacher
- Ella Edmondson (born 1986), English singer-songwriter
- Ella Eklund (1894–1953), Swedish diver
- Ella Elgar (1869–1945), New Zealand entrepreneur and art collector
- Ella Emhoff (born 1999), American model, artist, designer, and U.S. Second Daughter
- Ella Endlich (born 1984), German singer
- Ella Ensink (1897–c. 1968), German film editor
- Ella Envy (born 2000), American professional wrestler
- Ella Eronen (1900–1987), Finnish actress
- Ella Howard Estill, American botanical illustrator
- Ella Eyre (born 1994), English singer
- Ella Fajardo (born 2003), Filipino basketball player
- Ella Farman (1837–1907), American writer and editor
- Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996), American jazz singer
- Ella Florence Fonden (1880–1982), American philanthropist
- Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, Cuban-born philanthropist and art collector
- Ella R. Frank (1900–1988), British opera singer
- Ella Friend (born 2003), Australian rules footballer
- Ella Fry (1916–1997), Australian artist
- Ella Mae Gallavan (1903–1966), American pathologist
- Ella Gálová (born 2004), French squash player
- Ella Hudson Gasking (1892–1966), British industrialist and engineer
- Ella George, Australian politician
- Ella M. George (1850–1938), American teacher, lecturer, social reformer
- Ella German (born 1937), friend of Lee Harvey Oswald
- Ella Gibbons (born 1994), Scottish netball player
- Ella Gibson (born 2000), British archer
- Ella Gifft (1882–1964), American businesswoman and suffragist
- Ella Giselle, American television personality, actress and transgender rights activist
- Ella Gombaszögi (1894–1951), Hungarian actress
- Ella T. Grasso (1919–1981), American politician and first woman elected governor of Connecticut
- Ella Graubart (1896–1982), American lawyer
- Ella Greenslade (born 1997), New Zealand rower
- Ella Greenwood (born 2001), English actress, writer and activist
- Ella Gross (born 2008), American model and actress, member of South Korean group Meovv
- Ella Guevara (born 1998), Filipino actress
- Ella Koblo Gulama (1921–2006), Sierra Leone politician
- Ella Gunson (born 1989), New Zealand field hockey player
- Ella Guru (born 1966), American painter and musician
- Ella Haddad (born 1978), Australian politician
- Ella Halikas, American model and social media influencer
- Ella Hall (1896–1981), American actress
- Ella Halman (1906–1995), British opera singer and actress
- Ella Halvarsson (born 1999), Swedish biathlete
- Ella Harper (1870–1921), American circus performer
- Ella Harris (born 1998), New Zealand cyclist
- Ella Hase (born 2002), American soccer player
- Ella Knowles Haskell (1860–1911), American lawyer
- Ella Hattan (1860–1924), American fencer and actress
- Ella Havelka (born 1989), ballet dancer and first Indigenous person to join the Australian Ballet
- Ella Hayward (born 2003), Australian cricketer
- Ella Heads (born 2003), Australian rules footballer
- Ella van Heemstra (1900–1984), Dutch noblewoman and the mother of actress Audrey Hepburn
- Ella Heide, Danish painter
- Ella Henderson (born 1996), British singer
- Ella Henry, New Zealand Maōri academic
- Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer (1873–1943), American painter
- Ella Hickson, British playwright and director
- Ella Rhoads Higginson (1861–1940), American poet and author
- Ella Cora Hind (1861–1942), Canadian journalist
- Ella Hooper (born 1983), Australian singer and songwriter
- Ella Hose (born 2005), Australian Paralympic athlete
- Ella Huber (born 2002), American ice hockey player
- Ella Hunt (born 1998), British actress
- Ella Hill Hutch (c. 1924–1981), American politician
- Ella Lily Hyland (born 1998), Irish actress
- Ella Ilbak (1895–1997), Estonian dancer
- Ella Mae Irby (1923–2001), American quilt artist
- Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen (born 1998), Norwegian Sámi musician, activist and actress
- Ella Jane (born 2001), American singer and songwriter
- Ella Jansen (born 2005), Canadian swimmer
- Ella Jenkins (1924–2024), American folk singer
- Ella de Jesus (born 1993), Filipino volleyball player
- Ella Johnson (1919–2004), American jazz musician
- Ella Mae Johnson (1904–2010), American writer
- Ella Bond Johnston (1860–1951), American art administrator and educator
- Ella Jones, mayor of Ferguson, Missouri from 2020
- Ella Jones (swimmer) (born 2000), Australian Paralympic swimmer
- Ella Joyce (born 1954), American actress
- Ella Junnila (born 1998), Finnish high jumper
- Ella Kaabachi (born 1992), French-Tunisian footballer
- Ella Kalsbeek (born 1955), Dutch politician
- Ella Kamanya (1961–2005), Namibian politician and businesswoman
- Ella Eaton Kellogg (1853–1920), American philanthropist and pioneer in dietetics
- Ella B. Kendrick (1849–1928), American temperance activist
- Ella Kenion (born 1968), English actress
- Ella Kivikoski (1901–1990), Finnish archaeologist
- Ella Koon (born 1979), Hong Kong singer
- Ella Koster (born 2005), Australian rugby league footballer
- Ella Kovacs (born 1964), Romanian middle-distance runner
- Ella Kruglyanskaya (born 1978), Latvian painter
- Ella Laboriel (born 1949), Mexican singer and actress
- Ella-Lee Lahav (born 2003), Israeli singer
- Ella Condie Lamb (1862–1936), American painter
- Ella Langley (born 1999), American singer-songwriter
- Ella Park Lawrence (1857–1924), leader, philanthropist and avid advocate
- Ella Mary Leather (1874–1928), English collector of folklore and songs
- Ella Leffland (1931–2024), American writer
- Ella Leivo (born 1994), Finnish tennis player
- Ella Lemhagen (born 1965), Swedish film director and screenwriter
- Ella Mae Lentz (born 1954), American author, poet, teacher and advocate
- Ella Lewis (1878–1953), American educator and politician
- Ella Leya, American composer and singer
- Ella Fillmore Lillie (1884–1972), American painter
- Ella Lingens (1908–2002), Austrian physician
- Ella Little-Collins, American civil rights activist
- Ella Littwitz (born 1982), Israeli artist
- Ella Lloyd (born 2005), Welsh racing driver
- Ella Logan (1913–1969), Scottish actress and singer
- Ella Lonsdale (born 2007), English boxer
- Ella Scott Lynch(born 1982), Australian actress
- Ella Macknight (1904–1997), Australian obstetrician nd gynecologist
- Ella Maclean-Howell (born 2004), British cyclist
- Ella MacMahon (1864–1956), Irish romance novelist
- Ella Mahammitt (1863–1932), American journalist
- Ella Mai (born 1994), British singer
- Ella Maillart (1903–1997), Swiss adventurer, travel writer, photographer, and sportswoman
- Ella Manning (1906–2007), Canadian nurse arctic explorer, writer and naturalist
- Ella M. S. Marble (1850–1929), American journalist, educator, activist, and physician
- Ella Marchment (born 1992), British opera director
- Ella Masar (born 1986), American soccer player
- Ella Mastrantonio (born 1992), Australian soccer player
- Ella Matteucci (born 1993), Canadian baseball and ice hockey player
- Ella E. McBride (1862–1965), American photographer
- Ella McCaleb (1856–1933), American college dean
- Ella McCaughan (born 2002), English cricketer
- Ella McDonald (born 2005), British tennis player
- Ella McFadyen (1887–1976), Australian children’s novelist
- Ella Mensch (1859–1935), German journalist and editor
- Ella Mikkola (born 2007), Finnish high jumper
- Ella Milch-Sheriff (born 1954), Israeli composer
- Ella Millar (1869–1959), politician
- Ella Mills (born 1991), British food writer and entrepreneur
- Ella Mitchell (1935–2024), American soul singer and actress
- Ella Molnár (1906–1990), Hungarian swimmer
- Ella Payne Moran (1898–1985), American educator
- Ella Morgan (1876–1958), American school librarian
- Ella Morgan (television personality) (born 1993), English television personality, presenter and model
- Ella Morris (born 2002), English footballer
- Ella Mae Morse (1924–1999), American singer
- Ella Uphay Mowry (1865–1923), American politician, suffragist and women's rights activist
- Ella Naper (1886–1972), British artist
- Ella Negruzzi (1876–1948), Romanian lawyer and women’s rights activist
- Ella Nelson (born 1994), Australian sprinter
- Ella Némethy (1895–1961), Hungarian mezzo-soprano
- Ella Newton, Australian actress
- Ella Nicholas (born 1990), Cook Islander canoeist
- Ella Norcross (1854–1923), American painter
- Ella Norraikow (1849-1913), Canadian author, metaphysician
- Ella O'Grady (born 2005), Australian soccer player
- Ella O'Neill (1857–1922), mother of playwright Eugene O'Neill
- Ella O'Neill (screenwriter), American screenwriter
- Ella Onojuvwevwo (born 2005), Nigerian sprinter
- Ella Scoble Opperman (1873–1969), American pianist and music teacher
- Ella Ottey (born 2005), Canadian association football player
- Ella Seaver Owen (1852–1910), American painter
- Ella Palis (born 1999), French footballer
- Ella Pamfilova (born 1953), Russian politician
- Ella Pardy (born 1990), Australian Paralympic athlete
- Ella Peaters (1907–1991), Norwegian actress, revue artist, singer and circus performer
- Ella Rae Peck (born 1990), American actress
- Ella Peddemors (born 2002), Dutch footballer
- Ella Ferris Pell (1846–c. 1922), American painter
- Ella Pilcher (1863–1939), British aviator
- Ella Sachs Plotz (1888–1922), American scientist
- Ella Polyakova (born 1941), Russian human rights activist
- Ella Pontefract (c. 1896–1945), British social historian
- Ella van Poucke (born 1994), Dutch cellist
- Ella Powell (born 2000), Welsh football player
- Ella Purnell (born 1996), English actress
- Ella Maisy Purvis (born 2003), English actress
- Ella Raines (1920–1988), American actress
- Ella Ramsay (born 2004), Australian swimmer
- Ella Rappich (born 2000), Swedish actress
- Ella Ratilainen (born 1997), Finnish aesthetic group gymnast
- Ella-May Rayner (born 1995), British gymnast and television personality
- Ella Retford (1885–1962), English music hall entertainer
- Ella Road (born 1991), British writer
- Ella Roberts (born 2004), Australian rules footballer
- Ella Mae Romig (1871–1937), missionary
- Ella del Rosario, Filipina singer
- Ella Rothschild, choreographer and dancer
- Ella Rubin (born 2001), American actress
- Ella Giles Ruddy (1851–1917), American author and editor
- Ella Rumpf (born 1995), Swiss actress
- Ella Russell, American politician
- Ella Rutherford (born 2000), English footballer
- Ella Sabljak (born 1991), Australian wheelchair basketball player
- Ella Sadovsky(born 1964), Israeli artist
- Ella May Saison, Filipino singer
- Ella Sanchez (born 2005), American soccer player
- Ella Campbell Scarlett (1864–1937), English physician
- Ella V. Aldrich Schwing (1902–1982), American librarian
- Ella Seidel (born 2005), German tennis player
- Ella Sekatau (1928–2014), poet, ethnohistorian, medicine woman of the Narragansett Indian Nation
- Ella Sergeyeva (1935–2024), Soviet rower
- Ella Shelton (born 1998), Canadian ice hockey player
- Ella Sheppard (1851–1914), American singer
- Ella Shields (1879–1952), British music hall singer and male impersonator
- Ella Shohat (born 1959), Israeli-American professor
- Ella Simon (1902–1981), Australian Aboriginal activist
- Ella Smith, several people
- Ella Snyder, American actress
- Ella Spicer, New Zealand visual artist
- Ella Spira, British composer
- Ella Stack (1929–2023), Australian medical doctor and the Lord Mayor of Darwin
- Ella Stevens (born 1997), American soccer player
- Ella P. Stewart (1893–1987), American pharmacist
- Ella Suitiala (born 1989), Finnish snowboarder
- Ella Telford (born 1999), English cricketer
- Ella Tengbom-Velander (1921–2022), Swedish politician
- Ella Cheever Thayer (1849–1925), American novelist
- Ella Thomas (born 1981), Eritrean American actress
- Ella St. Clair Thompson (1870–1944), American suffragist
- Ella May Thornton (1885-1971), American librarian
- Ella Tiritiello (born 2006), Swedish singer and actress
- Ella Toone (born 1999), English footballer
- Ella King Torrey (1957–2003), American scholar, academic administrator
- Ella King Russell Torrey (1925–2020), American human rights activist
- Ella Touon (born 2003), Swiss association football player
- Ella Tripp (born 1976), English badminton player
- Ella Tromp-Yarzagaray (born 1944), Aruban politician
- Ella Tvrdková (1878–1918), Czech opera singer
- Ella Tyree (1920–1989), American medical researcher
- Ella Stewart Udall (1855–1937), American telegraphist and entrepreneur
- Ella Vaday (born 1988), British drag performer, actor and dancer
- Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer (1892–1986), American architect
- Ella Van Kerkhoven (born 1993), Belgian footballer
- Ella Vanhanen (born 1993), Finnish footballer
- Ella Viitasuo (born 1996), Finnish ice hockey player
- Ella Vogelaar (1949–2019), Dutch politician
- Ella Vos, American musician
- Ella Waldek (1929–2013), American professional wrestler
- Ella May Walker, Canadian-American artist, author and composer
- Ella Washington (born 1943), American singer
- Ella Washington (author), American professor and author
- Ella Watson (1860–1889), American rancher
- Ella Webb (1877–1946), Irish pediatrician
- Ella Weed (1853–1894), American educator
- Ella Wesner (1841–1917), male impersonator
- Ella Holmes White (1856–1942), American Titanic survivor
- Ella Wiebe (born 1978), German-born New Zealand footballer
- Ella May Wiggins (c. 1900–1929), American labor unionist
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919), American poet and author
- Ella Abomah Williams, African-American performer
- Ella Williams (born 1995), New Zealand surfer
- Ella B. Ensor Wilson (1838–1913), American social reformer and writer
- Ella Wilson (born 2003), Australian cricketer
- Ella Winter (1898–1980), American journalist
- Ella Wintler (1885–1975), American politician
- Ella Rae Wise (born 2000), English television personality
- Ella Wolfe (1896–2000), American political activist
- Ella Wood (born 2001), Australian rules footballer
- Ella Wyllie (born 2002), New Zealand cyclist
- Ella Wyrwas (born 1999), English rugby union player
- Ella Gaines Yates (1927–2006), American librarian
- Ella Yelich-O'Connor (born 1996), New Zealand musician, known by her stage name "Lorde"
- Ella Flagg Young (1845–1918), American suffragette
- Ella Young (1867–1956), Irish poet and Celtic mythologist
- Ella Zeller (1933–2025), Romanian table tennis player
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People with the surname
- Gary Ella (born 1960), Australian rugby union footballer
- Glen Ella (born 1959), Australian rugby union footballer
- Krishna Ella (born 1969), Indian scientist and entrepreneur
- Mark Ella (born 1959), Australian rugby union footballer
- Norman Ella (1910–1987), Australian rowing coxswain
- Steve Ella (born 1960), Australian rugby league footballer
Fictional characters
- Ella, the heroine from Cinderella (2015)
- Ella, the main character from Ella Enchanted
- Ella, a character from Total Drama: Pahkitew Island
- Ella Lopez, a character from Lucifer
- Elinor "Ella" Love, a character in Motown Magic
- Ella, a character in Paw Patrol
- Ella Forster, a character from the British soap opera Emmerdale
- Ella Montgomery, a character from Pretty Little Liars
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