Fela
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Fela has been given to 50 babies in the U.S. since 1920. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1972, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.
Babies named Fela, 2021
1 in 565,000
Fela over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Fela over time
In 2021, Fela went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Fela?
Fela had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 565,000
- 6 of 3,389,958 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 273,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,624 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Fela sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Felas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Fela was born before 1946 — so the typical Fela is around 79 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 22.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 20
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Fela rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1972 (9)
- Years since peak
- 53
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Fela
Fela is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 10.7% against Fela's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Fela around the world
Where Fela ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France1928–1990#3,283in 1990
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Fela by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Fela
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Fela
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.