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Clella

Clella reached its high-water mark in 1915 at number 1,140, and has been recorded 887 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1958. About 110 Clellas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 82.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Clella

By the numbers

Total US births
887
Estimated living today
110
Median age today
82
Peak year
1915
Best rank
1,140th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1885

How old the living Clellas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 887 babies given the name since 1885, about 110 are alive — 12 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1943 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Clella is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Clella is most concentrated in Missouri (36.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1915

The most popular girls’ names the year Clella peaked:

All the names of 1915

Related names

Clella against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.