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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Fela

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

45

peak year 1972

More common than

50%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1972
9 births
Best rank
#4,441
in 1933
First recorded
1920
#5,250 that year
Last recorded
2021
no later published record
Average birth year
1961
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
8 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19729#5,620Peak
  2. 20216#14,056
  3. 19205#5,250
  4. 19265#5,116
  5. 19305#4,782

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #4,441 in 1933 · peak births 9 in 1972

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 10% boys■ 90% girls

5 boys · 45 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Fela has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.