Cilla

Where Cilla comes from

Cilla hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    Debut at its peak, #908
    #908 among girls with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1883
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1960
    Cilla Naumann born
    Swedish writer
  4. 1964
    Cilla Benkö born
    Swedish journalist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Cilla Naumann · Swedish writer, born 1960
  • Cilla Benkö · Swedish journalist, born 1964
  • Cilla Johnson · Swedish translator, 1911–2002
  • Cilla Kung · Chinese actress, born 1986
  • Cilla Ingvar · Swedish actress, 1931–1998

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.