Rilla
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · girls
- 1881 · 21 births
- Debut · girls
- 17 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,659since 1880
Rilla over time
Rank among girls' names. Rilla has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 |
| 2007 | — | |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 |
| 2005 | — | |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 |
| 2002 | — | |
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| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
| 1993 | — | |
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| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 |
| 1964 | #3,692 | 13 |
| 1963 | #4,272 | 10 |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 |
| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 |
| 1959 | #3,827 | 11 |
| 1958 | #2,506 | 21 |
| 1957 | #4,918 | 7 |
| 1956 | #3,048 | 15 |
| 1955 | #2,222 | 24 |
| 1954 | #2,889 | 15 |
| 1953 | #2,236 | 22 |
| 1952 | #2,411 | 19 |
| 1951 | #1,740 | 31 |
| 1950 | #3,423 | 10 |
| 1949 | #1,967 | 24 |
| 1948 | #2,416 | 17 |
| 1947 | #1,752 | 30 |
| 1946 | #1,467 | 36 |
| 1945 | #1,743 | 23 |
| 1944 | #1,578 | 27 |
| 1943 | #1,492 | 31 |
| 1942 | #1,438 | 32 |
| 1941 | #1,384 | 31 |
| 1940 | #1,313 | 32 |
| 1939 | #1,308 | 32 |
| 1938 | #1,343 | 30 |
| 1937 | #1,144 | 39 |
| 1936 | #1,375 | 28 |
| 1935 | #1,418 | 27 |
| 1934 | #1,409 | 27 |
| 1933 | #1,179 | 36 |
| 1932 | #1,147 | 39 |
| 1931 | #1,336 | 30 |
| 1930 | #1,371 | 31 |
| 1929 | #1,174 | 40 |
| 1928 | #1,310 | 34 |
| 1927 | #1,213 | 41 |
| 1926 | #1,830 | 22 |
| 1925 | #1,196 | 42 |
| 1924 | #1,227 | 42 |
| 1923 | #1,245 | 39 |
| 1922 | #1,309 | 36 |
| 1921 | #1,514 | 30 |
| 1920 | #1,021 | 53 |
| 1919 | #1,090 | 45 |
| 1918 | #1,073 | 46 |
| 1917 | #1,079 | 43 |
| 1916 | #993 | 48 |
| 1915 | #1,000 | 44 |
| 1914 | #769 | 56 |
| 1913 | #1,358 | 18 |
| 1912 | #1,032 | 25 |
| 1911 | #777 | 31 |
| 1910 | #859 | 25 |
| 1909 | #831 | 24 |
| 1908 | #723 | 29 |
| 1907 | #819 | 21 |
| 1906 | #917 | 16 |
| 1905 | #713 | 25 |
| 1904 | #668 | 27 |
| 1903 | #712 | 22 |
| 1902 | #583 | 32 |
| 1901 | #559 | 30 |
| 1900 | #504 | 45 |
| 1899 | #550 | 30 |
| 1898 | #527 | 35 |
| 1897 | #497 | 34 |
| 1896 | #576 | 28 |
| 1895 | #455 | 40 |
| 1894 | #535 | 29 |
| 1893 | #399 | 45 |
| 1892 | #434 | 38 |
| 1891 | #423 | 35 |
| 1890 | #462 | 32 |
| 1889 | #475 | 27 |
| 1888 | #486 | 26 |
| 1887 | #446 | 25 |
| 1886 | #387 | 31 |
| 1885 | #373 | 30 |
| 1884 | #398 | 25 |
| 1883 | #386 | 23 |
| 1882 | #418 | 19 |
| 1881 | #360 | 21 |
| 1880 | #403 | 17 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Rilla was already there! It came in at #403, and was given to 17 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1966, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Rilla is popular in 1911
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#313 · 1 in 2,394
Best ever in a state: #290 in Georgia, 1916.
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| Alabama | #313 | 5 | 1 in 2,394 |
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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 Rilla
- 4,338 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #11,932)
- 4,720 spots since 2020 (#7,212 → #11,932)
- 2,451 spots since 2015 (#9,481 → #11,932)
- Biggest jump: 589 spots in 1914 (#1,358 → #769)
- Biggest drop: 255 spots in 1912 (#777 → #1,032)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1881 at #360 (21 births)
- Births halved by 1950, 69 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1880–1911
- Highest: 1 in 4,379 girls born in 1881 were named Rilla (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 14.3% of all girls named Rilla (381) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 244 | #360 (1881) | #413 |
| 1890s | 346 | #399 (1893) | #486 |
| 1900s | 271 | #504 (1900) | #703 |
| 1910s | 381 | #769 (1914) | #1,003 |
| 1920s | 379 | #1,021 (1920) | #1,304 |
| 1930s | 319 | #1,144 (1937) | #1,303 |
| 1940s | 283 | #1,313 (1940) | #1,655 |
| 1950s | 175 | #1,740 (1951) | #2,922 |
| 1960s | 79 | #3,692 (1964) | #4,899 |
| 1970s | 23 | #6,900 (1974) | #8,185 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 6 | #11,778 (1994) | #11,778 |
| 2000s | 17 | #13,606 (2006) | #15,631 |
| 2010s | 68 | #9,481 (2015) | #11,490 |
| 2020s | 68 | #7,212 (2020) | #9,203 |
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.
Rilla in 1911
Top girls' names in 1911
More about 1911
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418,309 girls got a published name in 1911; 1 in 13,494 of them was named Rilla, which outranked 72.9% of the 2,868 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).