I've come across several Ellas among my daughter's peers. It strikes me as a cold and prissy name, but that's not detrimental, I don't think. It's very dignified and not unpleasant. But kind of forgettable and incomplete-seeming. It's just an ending to me, like
Etta; and it's a short mumble of a name like
Emma so I have never liked it.
- mirfak