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Ellora

Gender
Girl
Say it
e-LOR-a
UK rank, 2025
#2,206 for girls
US rank, 2025
#3,100 for girls

Ellora is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 2,206th for girls in the UK (13 babies) and 3,100th for girls in the US (52 babies).

What does Ellora mean?

Possibly from the Ellora Caves in India, or an elaboration of Ella

Shares its name with the Ellora Caves, a complex of rock-cut temples in Maharashtra, India.

Is Ellora a girl's or a boy's name?

Ellora is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the UK and 52 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Ellora in the UK?

Rank in 2025
2,206th among girls
Babies in 2025
13 about 1 in 21,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 10% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 13 girls in the UK were named Ellora, making it the 2,206th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,159th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 23 girls.

Half of all the girls named Ellora in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 244 girls in the UK were given Ellora or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #226, up from #2,206 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 2,137th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 23 in 20182025
Ellora in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202513#2,206
202415#1,953
202315#1,955
202219#1,667
202113#2,202
202013#2,159
201912#2,275
201823#1,468
201713#2,210
201621#1,605
201514#2,085
201414#2,076
20137#3,338
20124#5,058
20116#3,737
20109#2,741
20094#4,795
20085#4,065
20073#5,415
20064#4,357
20053#4,976
20044#3,916
20038#2,320
20028#2,231
20015#2,928
200010#1,792
19994#3,374
19983#4,026
19973#3,991
19963#3,935

How popular is Ellora in the US?

Rank in 2025
3,100th among girls
Babies in 2025
52 about 1 in 31,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady up 16% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 52 girls in the US were named Ellora, making it the 3,100th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,015th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 66 girls. It first appears in the records in 1890.

Half of all the girls named Ellora in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 935 girls in the US were given Ellora or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #357, up from #3,100 for this spelling alone.

1890Busiest: 66 in 20232025
Ellora in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202552#3,100
202448#3,277
202366#2,646
202256#2,956
202149#3,250
202053#3,015
201950#3,171
201840#3,738
201752#3,091
201646#3,411
201553#3,129
201435#4,176
201338#3,916
201248#3,363
201127#5,061
201025#5,412
200918#7,063
200824#5,747
200718#7,088
200621#6,123
200515#7,495
200412#8,711
200321#5,581
20028#11,102
20019#10,095
200012#8,020
199910#8,798
199812#7,527
19978#9,797
19967#10,562
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19937#10,581
19927#10,471
19918#9,328
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Nicknames for Ellora

Names like Ellora

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Ellora

Names related to Ellora

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Ellora: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ellora, updated 20 October 2026.