Entry № 2832 · Sanskrit origin

Ela Ela — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Cardamom / earth"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "cardamom / earth".

Ela is from the Sanskrit Elā.

Cardamom / earth — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

एला
Transliteration
Elā
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛ.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ela stands.

Ela does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Elas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ayurveda Cardamom / Charaka-Sushruta Samhita / Elakshi cardamom-eyed
Sanskrit cardamom Elettaria cardamomum queen-of-spices + Ayurvedic Tridoṣa balancer + Charaka Samhita + Sushruta Samhita + Elākṣī cardamom-eyed epithet + Sushruta Samhita
Ayurveda

Names connected to Ela.

The number behind Ela.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ela reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.