In 2025, 26 US girls were named Lilla, making it the 5,047th most common girls’ name of the year, down 705 places from #4,342 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 33 girls named Lilla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #262, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 85, in 1918. For comparison, it was #3,817 in 2015 and #2,616 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lilla in 135 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 35 babies. In all, 4,440 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 657 babies named Lilla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 275 US girls were named Lilla; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,818 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lila (76,550 babies since 1880), Leila (55,447 babies since 1880), Lyla (49,299 babies since 1880) and Lela (43,073 babies since 1880).
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