Entry № 9960 · Latin origin

Spela Spela — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHPEH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Elizabeth diminutive (Slovenian + Spela Pretnar skier)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Slovenian)

A name that means "elizabeth diminutive (slovenian + spela pretnar skier)".

Spela is from the Slovenian Špela — Slovenian diminutive of Elizabeth (Hebrew Elisheba — my God is oath). Spela is one of the Slovenian feminine names — central to traditional Slovenian Catholic heritage.

Elizabeth diminutive (Slovenian-Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

Špela
Transliteration
Špela
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃpɛ.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Spela stands.

Spela 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.

Spelas before her.

Real people
Špela Pretnar
Slovenian alpine ski racer + FIS Alpine Ski World Cup.
born 1973
In fiction
Spela
Slovenian Elizabeth.

Names connected to Spela.

The number behind Spela.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Spela reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.