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Idella

#12,395 in 2025Girls' name

Elaboration of Ida

Idella has been given to 6,554 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #12,395 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 168 recorded.

Babies named Idella, 2025

1 in 474,000

Idella over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Idella: meaning, origin, and history

Elaboration of Ida

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Idella means

Idella is a elaboration of Ida.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Idella is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /aɪ.ˈdɛl.ə/ and /ɪ.ˈdɛl.ə/ for Idella.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Idella is a elaboration of Ida. Ida has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ida.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,554 girls were recorded with the name Idella between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 168 in 1921; its best national rank was #335 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,706 in 2020 to #12,395 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,409 in 2015 to #12,395 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Idella?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,395
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Idella sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Idella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Idellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Idella was born before 1925 — so the typical Idella is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
22.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,214
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (1,460).

Is Idella 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
+3,812
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,689
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,986
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.2%
Peak was 1921 (168)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#335
1880

Spellings of Idella

Idella is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 38.0% against Idella's 0.71%.

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.

Where Idella is used

Across 1910–2025, Idella was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 3,846 girls, against 1 in 43,010 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

026 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 3,846
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 10,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 11,111
  4. 4Georgia1 in 11,111
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 16,667
  6. 6Florida1 in 16,667
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 16,667
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Idella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Idella by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,395
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,689
Best rank ever
#335
1880
Peak year
1921
168 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,554
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Idella

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AdellaJoellaNoellaNovellaOzellaLillaCallaNellaAngellaArdellaIdellMirellaZellaKamillaLouellaAnabellaBriellaLuellaRosellaRillaMariellaAbellaVellaMilla

Names with a curve like Idella

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Idella, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Idella

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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