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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Lela

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

#2,374

down −165 places

2025 births

76

down −10 births

All-time births

43,005

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1921
907 births
Best rank
#113
in 1894
First recorded
1880
#142 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1932
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 1921907#212Peak
  2. 1919898#207
  3. 1918896#209
  4. 1916888#199
  5. 1920878#218

Rank over time

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

Best rank #113 in 1894 · peak births 907 in 1921

Boys and girls

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

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

68 boys · 43,005 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 Lela has ranked, decade by decade

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