Meaning not yet researched.
Eila: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 113 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,400 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,400 in 2020; #1,783 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Eila in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,783 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,400.
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Eila: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 113 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,400 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 156 (2020).
In 2025, 113 US girls were named Eila, making it the 1,783rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 163 places from #1,946 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 102 girls named Eila in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,400, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 156. For comparison, it was #2,217 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eila in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 1,906 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 779 babies named Eila.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,158 US girls were named Eila; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 156. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,224 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eila ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #588 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ella (352,214 babies since 1880), Eula (47,491 babies since 1880), Ila (25,120 babies since 1880) and Iola (9,659 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Finnish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Eila in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 7 | #588 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #604 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #947 | #1,471 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,020 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,079 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,267 | #1,157 |
| California | 10 | #1,992 | #2,557 |
| New York | 5 | #2,181 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,249 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,709 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 113 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 2024 | 102 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 2023 | 146 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 2022 | 142 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 2021 | 120 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 2020 | 156 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 2019 | 97 | #1,991 | — | — |
| 2018 | 85 | #2,194 | — | — |
| 2017 | 100 | #1,979 | — | — |
| 2016 | 97 | #2,038 | — | — |
| 2015 | 85 | #2,217 | — | — |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,564 | — | — |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,187 | — | — |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,779 | — | — |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,920 | — | — |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,532 | — | — |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,299 | — | — |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,054 | — | — |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,634 | — | — |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,869 | — | — |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,356 | — | — |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,933 | — | — |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,621 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,048 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,168 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,961 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,910 | — | — |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,905 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,428 | — | — |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,971 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,817 | — | — |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,866 | — | — |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,878 | — | — |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,003 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,178 | — | — |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,771 | — | — |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,002 | — | — |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,279 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,660 | — | — |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,853 | — | — |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,654 | — | — |
| 1921 | 19 | #2,067 | — | — |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,627 | — | — |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,280 | — | — |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,315 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,648 | — | — |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,528 | — | — |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,480 | — | — |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,615 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,096 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).