Eila
#1,777 for girls in 2025, 113 births
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 156 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,906since 1912
Eila over time
Rank among girls' names. Eila has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,777 | 113 |
| 2024 | #1,942 | 102 |
| 2023 | #1,486 | 146 |
| 2022 | #1,518 | 142 |
| 2021 | #1,721 | 120 |
| 2020 | #1,398 | 156 |
| 2019 | #1,986 | 97 |
| 2018 | #2,190 | 85 |
| 2017 | #1,976 | 100 |
| 2016 | #2,033 | 97 |
| 2015 | #2,209 | 85 |
| 2014 | #2,560 | 69 |
| 2013 | #3,166 | 51 |
| 2012 | #2,770 | 63 |
| 2011 | #2,909 | 59 |
| 2010 | #3,516 | 45 |
| 2009 | #4,269 | 35 |
| 2008 | #5,013 | 29 |
| 2007 | #6,552 | 20 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 |
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| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 |
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| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
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| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 |
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| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 |
| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 |
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| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 |
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| 1933 | #3,753 | 6 |
| 1932 | #2,831 | 10 |
| 1931 | #3,848 | 6 |
| 1930 | #4,047 | 6 |
| 1929 | #3,682 | 7 |
| 1928 | #2,954 | 10 |
| 1927 | #2,256 | 16 |
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 |
| 1925 | #2,778 | 12 |
| 1924 | #2,809 | 12 |
| 1923 | #2,264 | 16 |
| 1922 | #2,612 | 13 |
| 1921 | #2,048 | 19 |
| 1920 | #2,590 | 13 |
| 1919 | #3,219 | 9 |
| 1918 | #3,244 | 9 |
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| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 |
| 1915 | #3,434 | 7 |
| 1914 | #2,434 | 9 |
| 1913 | #2,540 | 7 |
| 1912 | #2,979 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Eila! It came in at #2,979, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1917, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Eila is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#513 · 1 in 2,114
- Ohio#881 · 1 in 4,696
- New York#1,219 · 1 in 7,068
- Illinois#1,432 · 1 in 8,911
- California#1,702 · 1 in 12,685
Best ever in a state: #513 in Kentucky, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #513 | 8 | 1 in 2,114 |
| Ohio | #881 | 10 | 1 in 4,696 |
| New York | #1,219 | 11 | 1 in 7,068 |
| Illinois | #1,432 | 5 | 1 in 8,911 |
| California | #1,702 | 13 | 1 in 12,685 |
| Florida | #1,705 | 7 | 1 in 12,153 |
| Texas | #1,980 | 11 | 1 in 14,741 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Eila
- 165 spots since 2024 (#1,942 → #1,777)
- 379 spots since 2020 (#1,398 → #1,777)
- 432 spots since 2015 (#2,209 → #1,777)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2020 at #1,398 (156 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,362 girls born in 2020 were named Eila (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,224 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 40.9% of all girls named Eila (779) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 53 | #2,434 (1914) | #3,057 |
| 1920s | 126 | #2,048 (1921) | #2,756 |
| 1930s | 45 | #2,831 (1932) | #3,754 |
| 1940s | 6 | #4,764 (1947) | #4,764 |
| 1950s | 5 | #5,673 (1953) | #5,673 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 5 | #12,362 (1989) | #12,362 |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 136 | #4,269 (2009) | #9,216 |
| 2010s | 751 | #1,976 (2017) | #2,532 |
| 2020s | 779 | #1,398 (2020) | #1,640 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Eila in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
More about 2023
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1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 10,990 of them was named Eila, which outranked 91.6% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,482Dottie147
- #1,482Eliette147
- #1,482Kollins147
- #1,486Eila146
- #1,486Alannah146
- #1,486Avalyn146
- #1,486Bennett146
- #1,493Adalina145
- #1,493Baila145
- #1,493Giada145
Tied with 6 names at #1,486; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.