Ella

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Faroe Islands Faroese
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of Helena (see Helene) [1]

2) Short form of any name beginning with El- (esp. Elisabet, Elin and their variant forms) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

3) Short form of any name beginning with Edel- (see ADAL) [2] [5]

4) Short form of any name beginning with Eil-

5) Short form of any name ending with -ella or -elle [2] [4] [5]

Related Names

Ell
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Swedish
Ella
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Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Ellá
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Sami
Elle
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Danish Finish Norwegian Old Danish Sami Swedish
Elli
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Danish Finish Norwegian Old Norse Swedish
Elli
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Icelandic
Ellie
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Ello
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Sami
Ellu
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Finish
Elly
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Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Ellý
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Icelandic
Älla
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Swedish

See also Ela, Elkko, Ellan, Ellen, Ellika, Ellukka

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Elluson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Elludóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see ELL (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ella
Genitive: Ellas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Ella
Accusative: Ellu
Dative: Ellu
Genitive: Ellu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ella
Genitive: Ellan
Partitive: Ellaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Ella
Accusative: Ellu
Dative: Ellu
Genitive: Ellu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ella
Genitive: Ellas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ella
Genitive: Ellas

Name Days

Finland Finland

10 February

Norway Norway

19 February

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

10 February

Sweden Sweden

19 February

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[14]
16377 22608 16373 22601 4 7
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
16620
n.a.
16620 0 0
Denmark Denmark[15]
6945
n.a.
6945
n.a.
0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[16]
38 459
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[17]
40 80
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
5691
n.a.
5691
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Ella (f) Sources: [14][15][12][11]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Ella (f) Sources: [18]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Ella (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Ella (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Ella (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  9. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. 13.0 13.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  14. 14.0 14.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  15. 15.0 15.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  16. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  17. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  18. details see Name Statistic tables