Ila

Where Ila comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit इला (ilā).
— Wiktionary's entry for Ila
  • Sanskrit
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #435 among girls — 15 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1903
    Peak, #237
    160 babies named Ila — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1925
    Ila Mitra born
    Bangladeshi activist
  4. 1954
    Ila Arun born
    Indian actress and singer
  5. 1959
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,256.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
  • A male given name.
Namesakes
  • Ila Arun · Indian actress and singer, born 1954
  • Ila Mitra · Bangladeshi activist, 1925–2002
  • Ila Arab Mehta · Gujarati novelist and story writer from India, born 1938
  • Ila Patnaik · Indian economist and journalist
  • Ila Lóth · actress, 1900–1975

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.