Xela
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SHEH-lah
- US rank, 2025
- #4,877 for girls
Xela is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 4,877th for girls in the US (27 babies).
What does Xela mean?
From Xela, short for K'iche' Maya Xelaju (Quetzaltenango)
Xela is the everyday name of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala's second city, from its K'iche' Maya name Xelaju.
Is Xela a girl's or a boy's name?
Xela is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 27 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Xela in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,877th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 27 about 1 in 60,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 71% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 27 girls in the US were named Xela, making it the 4,877th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2022, with 42 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
Half of all the girls named Xela in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Xela in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,877 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,145 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,361 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,651 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,322 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,781 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,804 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,798 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
Names like Xela
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ximena, Xyla, Solana, Amora, Xena, Alora, Luna, Marigold, Esme, Palmer, Ezra, Xiomara
Sources
Figures from 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, “Xela: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/xela, updated 20 October 2026.