Given name & surname
Kela
“crank”
Kela is a surname, possibly from Old Swedish. It is used in Finnish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kela possibly goes back to a word meaning “crank.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1950. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kela through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 901
- 0 boys · 901 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 32 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 8 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 32 in 1994. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 967 as a first name in 2020; 103 as a surname in 2000.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kela’s family of names
In Greek usage, Kela as a surname is a transliteration of Κέλα.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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