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Xela

#4,978 in 2025Girls' name

Messenger, angel, through Anxela

Xela has been given to 371 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #4,978 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Xela, 2025

1 in 123,000

Xela over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Xela: meaning, origin, and history

Messenger, angel, through Anxela

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Xela means

Xela belongs to the name family reached through Xela → Anxela. Its meaning is “messenger, angel”.

Origin, language, and formation

Xela is used in Asturian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anxela.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Asturian, Xela is pronounced /ˈʃela/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 371 girls were recorded with the name Xela between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,697 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,924 in 2020 to #4,978 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,824 in 2015 to #4,978 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Xela?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 59,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,978
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Xela 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Xela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Xelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Xela was born before 2019 — so the typical Xela is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
45.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
371
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (170).

Is Xela 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
+305
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,946
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,846
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.70×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.3%
Peak was 2022 (42)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,697
2022

Spellings of Xela

Xela is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 11.1% against Xela'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.

Where Xela is used

Across 1910–2025, Xela was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 589,452 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Xela has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Xela around the world

Where Xela 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.

  • England & Wales
    2022–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Xela by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,978
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,946
Best rank ever
#3,697
2022
Peak year
2022
42 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
371
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Xela

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

DelaNelaZelaAelaBelaCielaRaelaMaelaNyelaAmelaMelaVelaMeelaAkelaHelaSelaStelaZaelaYselaMielaHeelaTaelaKeelaTela

Sibling names for Xela

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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