Entry № 3043 · Icelandic origin

Erla Erla — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"A wagtail bird"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a wagtail bird".

Erla is a name of Icelandic origin, meaning a little wagtail bird.

A wagtail bird — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Erla
Transliteration
Erla
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Erla stands.

Erla 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.

Erlas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Erla.

The number behind Erla.

9

The Giver

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