Zella
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 158 babies a year in the US.
Zella by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Zella. In the US, 158 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 298 babies in 1917, making it a 1910s name.
What we can tell you about Zella
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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