Meaning not yet researched.
Lila: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,670 in 2025. Its best rank was #155 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #155 in 2010; #187 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lila in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#187 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #155.
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Lila: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,670 girls in 2025. Peak: #155 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 1,969 (2010).
In 2025, 1,670 US girls were named Lila, making it the 187th most common girls’ name of the year, up 20 places from #207 in 2024. That is 188 more than the 1,482 girls named Lila in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #155, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,969. For comparison, it was #199 in 2015 and #432 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lila in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 36 babies with the name. In all, 76,550 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 16,568 babies named Lila.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,359 US girls were named Lila; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,670. In 2025 that was about 1 in 962 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lila ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #61 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 4 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Lily (189,789 babies since 1880), Lilly (66,752 babies since 1880), Leila (55,447 babies since 1880) and Lilah (24,664 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lelah, Leala and Lella are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lelah (2,187), Leala (875), Lella (864), Liela (308), Lylla (280), Lillah (203), Liyla (162), Liylah (140), Liala (126), Lyola (29), Leihla (22), Lyela (16), and more.
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 Lila in the open dataset we use.
Lila is listed as a nickname for Delilah.
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 5 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 11 | #61 | #106 |
| Rhode Island | 10 | #82 | #83 |
| Vermont | 5 | #86 | #71 |
| Montana | 10 | #95 | #94 |
| Iowa | 29 | #108 | #213 |
| Massachusetts | 48 | #111 | #140 |
| Idaho | 17 | #120 | #174 |
| Connecticut | 24 | #127 | #100 |
| Wisconsin | 40 | #136 | #186 |
| North Carolina | 71 | #140 | #117 |
| Maine | 8 | #141 | #177 |
| Missouri | 42 | #146 | #211 |
| Minnesota | 37 | #147 | #135 |
| Virginia | 53 | #148 | #188 |
| Michigan | 55 | #155 | #202 |
| Ohio | 70 | #157 | #155 |
| Colorado | 37 | #159 | #173 |
| Oklahoma | 24 | #162 | #298 |
| Utah | 27 | #167 | #139 |
| Alabama | 26 | #172 | #171 |
| Georgia | 59 | #173 | #176 |
| New York | 93 | #175 | #182 |
| Mississippi | 15 | #175 | #320 |
| Nebraska | 13 | #177 | #213 |
| Kansas | 19 | #178 | #247 |
| Tennessee | 42 | #182 | #204 |
| Kentucky | 25 | #188 | #204 |
| Pennsylvania | 60 | #190 | #130 |
| South Carolina | 25 | #193 | #219 |
| Arizona | 35 | #195 | #215 |
| Oregon | 19 | #195 | #175 |
| Arkansas | 15 | #203 | #282 |
| Washington | 36 | #205 | #123 |
| Florida | 89 | #213 | #283 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #214 | — |
| Louisiana | 20 | #219 | #277 |
| Maryland | 24 | #220 | #274 |
| New Hampshire | 6 | #223 | #108 |
| California | 150 | #225 | #276 |
| Indiana | 31 | #229 | #229 |
| New Jersey | 36 | #233 | #198 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #254 | #289 |
| Texas | 132 | #261 | #323 |
| Illinois | 40 | #266 | #199 |
| Nevada | 9 | #315 | #346 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #355 | #440 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,670 | #187 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,482 | #207 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,401 | #213 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,354 | #221 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,341 | #223 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,298 | #228 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,373 | #228 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,405 | #225 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,474 | #210 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,561 | #210 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,658 | #199 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,776 | #184 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,703 | #190 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,728 | #182 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,921 | #163 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,969 | #155 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,935 | #168 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,852 | #180 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,357 | #259 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,006 | #329 | — | — |
| 2005 | 680 | #448 | — | — |
| 2004 | 599 | #491 | — | — |
| 2003 | 492 | #569 | — | — |
| 2002 | 414 | #618 | — | — |
| 2001 | 394 | #641 | — | — |
| 2000 | 307 | #751 | — | — |
| 1999 | 312 | #724 | — | — |
| 1998 | 224 | #930 | — | — |
| 1997 | 156 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 1996 | 131 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 1995 | 124 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 1994 | 139 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1993 | 106 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1992 | 109 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 1991 | 134 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1990 | 125 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 1989 | 126 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 1988 | 103 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1987 | 112 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 1986 | 114 | #1,217 | — | — |
| 1985 | 132 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1984 | 98 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 1983 | 123 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1982 | 148 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1981 | 149 | #984 | — | — |
| 1980 | 150 | #988 | — | — |
| 1979 | 137 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1978 | 114 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1977 | 118 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 1976 | 112 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 1975 | 103 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 1974 | 148 | #879 | — | — |
| 1973 | 135 | #912 | — | — |
| 1972 | 132 | #933 | — | — |
| 1971 | 112 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1970 | 123 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1969 | 141 | #888 | — | — |
| 1968 | 115 | #970 | — | — |
| 1967 | 126 | #912 | — | — |
| 1966 | 146 | #825 | — | — |
| 1965 | 167 | #767 | — | — |
| 1964 | 227 | #678 | — | — |
| 1963 | 234 | #661 | — | — |
| 1962 | 195 | #738 | — | — |
| 1961 | 263 | #629 | — | — |
| 1960 | 291 | #580 | — | — |
| 1959 | 304 | #560 | — | — |
| 1958 | 293 | #579 | — | — |
| 1957 | 362 | #497 | — | — |
| 1956 | 428 | #443 | — | — |
| 1955 | 355 | #483 | — | — |
| 1954 | 359 | #467 | — | — |
| 1953 | 340 | #458 | — | — |
| 1952 | 414 | #419 | — | — |
| 1951 | 363 | #439 | — | — |
| 1950 | 351 | #432 | — | — |
| 1949 | 388 | #405 | — | — |
| 1948 | 421 | #388 | — | — |
| 1947 | 411 | #397 | — | — |
| 1946 | 386 | #387 | — | — |
| 1945 | 368 | #362 | — | — |
| 1944 | 414 | #338 | — | — |
| 1943 | 487 | #316 | — | — |
| 1942 | 482 | #316 | — | — |
| 1941 | 522 | #282 | — | — |
| 1940 | 529 | #270 | — | — |
| 1939 | 482 | #284 | 6 | #3,323 |
| 1938 | 531 | #275 | — | — |
| 1937 | 578 | #257 | — | — |
| 1936 | 646 | #244 | — | — |
| 1935 | 753 | #226 | 7 | #3,135 |
| 1934 | 844 | #210 | 8 | #2,858 |
| 1933 | 859 | #204 | — | — |
| 1932 | 949 | #193 | 5 | #4,075 |
| 1931 | 995 | #184 | 5 | #4,098 |
| 1930 | 1,203 | #170 | 5 | #4,320 |
| 1929 | 1,108 | #180 | — | — |
| 1928 | 1,034 | #195 | 5 | #4,482 |
| 1927 | 1,059 | #193 | — | — |
| 1926 | 1,085 | #190 | — | — |
| 1925 | 1,248 | #175 | — | — |
| 1924 | 1,053 | #199 | 5 | #4,709 |
| 1923 | 1,064 | #196 | — | — |
| 1922 | 919 | #212 | 5 | #4,688 |
| 1921 | 894 | #213 | — | — |
| 1920 | 840 | #227 | 6 | #4,084 |
| 1919 | 749 | #227 | — | — |
| 1918 | 748 | #231 | — | — |
| 1917 | 678 | #240 | — | — |
| 1916 | 708 | #230 | — | — |
| 1915 | 684 | #230 | — | — |
| 1914 | 561 | #226 | — | — |
| 1913 | 430 | #231 | — | — |
| 1912 | 396 | #226 | — | — |
| 1911 | 302 | #227 | — | — |
| 1910 | 311 | #209 | — | — |
| 1909 | 259 | #219 | — | — |
| 1908 | 254 | #213 | — | — |
| 1907 | 218 | #224 | — | — |
| 1906 | 242 | #196 | — | — |
| 1905 | 211 | #212 | — | — |
| 1904 | 259 | #186 | — | — |
| 1903 | 206 | #203 | — | — |
| 1902 | 239 | #189 | — | — |
| 1901 | 181 | #214 | — | — |
| 1900 | 268 | #191 | — | — |
| 1899 | 190 | #202 | — | — |
| 1898 | 208 | #204 | — | — |
| 1897 | 176 | #207 | — | — |
| 1896 | 201 | #195 | — | — |
| 1895 | 175 | #204 | — | — |
| 1894 | 161 | #211 | — | — |
| 1893 | 167 | #200 | — | — |
| 1892 | 147 | #211 | — | — |
| 1891 | 128 | #208 | — | — |
| 1890 | 120 | #222 | — | — |
| 1889 | 113 | #217 | — | — |
| 1888 | 88 | #248 | — | — |
| 1887 | 74 | #244 | — | — |
| 1886 | 69 | #249 | — | — |
| 1885 | 62 | #254 | — | — |
| 1884 | 73 | #224 | — | — |
| 1883 | 69 | #213 | — | — |
| 1882 | 65 | #206 | — | — |
| 1881 | 42 | #245 | — | — |
| 1880 | 36 | #257 | — | — |
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).