Luella

Where Luella comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Luella.

  • Vowel-ended
Luella through the years
  1. 1847
    Luella Dowd Smith born
    American author
  2. 1861
    Luella Miner born
    American educator, missionary in China
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #140 among girls, with 111 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1881
    Peak, #120
    141 babies named Luella, its best rank.
  5. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,294.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Louella.
Namesakes
  • Luella Miner · American educator, missionary in China, 1861–1935
  • Luella Dowd Smith · American author, 1847–1941
  • Luella Gear · actor, 1897–1980
  • Luella Bartley · British fashion designer and journalist, born 1974
  • Luella Johnston · American businesswoman, civic reformer, suffragette, 1861–1958

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.