Ella

Meanings

1. A female given name.
2. A diminutive of the female given names Eleanor, Ellen, Gabriella, or Daniella.
3. A placename:
4. A town in Uva Province, Sri Lanka.
5. An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States.
6. An unincorporated community in Morrow County, Oregon, United States.
7. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States.
8. An unincorporated community in the town of Frankfort, Pepin County, Wisconsin.

Etymology

A 19th-century shortening of Eleanor or Ellen, later also used for any name ending in -ella, such as Gabriella or Daniella. Similar abbreviations have been formed independently in many European languages, for any name containing the syllable -el-, e.g. Elisabeth.