Given name
Jela
“born of the suffering father”·“during birth, the father suffered”
Jela is used as a given name. Interpretations include “born of the suffering father” and “during birth, the father suffered”. These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “born of the suffering father” and “during birth, the father suffered”. These may reflect different naming traditions.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jela through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 68
- 0 boys · 68 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 9 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 1998. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 239 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jela’s family of names
In Slovak usage, Jela has a diminutive in Jelka. Jela has a related form in Jelah. Jela has a related form in Jella.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 22
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jela
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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