Lila
The 2025 national count puts Lila at #187, and more parents pick it every year. An old entry (1880) having its biggest moment now, with 76,493 American bearers across the record.
Lila’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Lila, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Lila since 1880
Lila peaked in 2010 at #155; #187 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Lila is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Lila runs strongest in District of Columbia at 0.54% in 2025, then Vermont and Rhode Island.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Lila
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Legend
#193 in 2025
Lilah
#179 in 2025
Lennon
#214 in 2025
Lane
#250 in 2025
Lilly
#252 in 2025 · English
Landon
#127 in 2025
Lydia
#92 in 2025 · Greek
Luka
#85 in 2025 · Latin
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About Lila
Where does Lila rank right now?
The 2025 national count puts Lila at #187, and more parents pick it every year. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Lila mean?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Lila keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
Is there a sibling name for Lila?
Legend, Lilah and Lennon sit nearest to Lila on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
Get Lila’s free Name Kit
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