Rella
#8,750 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rella has been given to 1,325 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #8,750 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 26 recorded.
Babies named Rella, 2025
1 in 276,000
Rella 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Rella?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 134,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,750
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rella sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rellas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rella was born before 1928 — so the typical Rella is around 97 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 17.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 7.2%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 284
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 17.8% of all recorded uses (236).
Is Rella 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
- +6,154
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +4,418
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +9,795
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.40×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 46.2%
- Peak was 1921 (26)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.5% average annual change
Spellings of Rella
Rella is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 18.9% against Rella's 0.05%.
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 Rella is used
Across 1910–2025, Rella was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 513,031 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Maine1 in 50,000
- 2Kentucky1 in 100,000
- 3Louisiana1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Pennsylvania1 in —
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. Rella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Rella around the world
Where Rella 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.
- France2014–2014#6,935in 2014
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Rella by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rella
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rella
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.